Japanese Breakfast did a Simlish cover for The Sims 4 because nonsense never gets old
Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Have you even made it as an artist if you're not singing in a made up language for a Sims game? There's a proud tradition of popular musicians like Carly Rae Jepsen or Janelle Monae re-recording songs in Simlish, the in-game language of The Sims, and now, celebrated alternative artist Japanese Breakfast (Michelle Zauner) is joining their ranks with a cover of her single Be Sweet" for The Sims 4 Cottage Living.
Zauner's track is summer-y and eminently danceable, and it feels just the same underneath a trailer hawking more features for The Sims 4, even with the chorus transformed to Ya wana baleesh da voo ya wana baleeeeeeeeesh". It's also delightfully weird in the way all covers in Simlish" are - I just love hearing famous musicians...