Mallrat Just Released A Song In ‘Sims’ Language, And It’s Bizarrely Perfect
Ooh voodoo!
Mallrat makes music that is at once deeply relatable and human, while also being heightened in fun and interesting ways — music that reflects your life, but through a slightly warped mirror.
That is, of course, exactly what The Sims does. (Stay with me here.)
The Sims isn’t a game precisely about human life — only a version of it. You recognise yourself in your Sims, but only in fragments. They’ll look like you one minute, and then the next they’ll be off trying to seduce a literal personification of Death or drowning in a pool because there’s no ladder and they’ve forgotten how to climb up the side.
So, what I’m saying is, there’s not actually such a long distance from the work of Mallrat to the world of The Sims — which is why it makes perfect sense that the artist has recorded a new version of her own song ‘Charlie’, but in Simlish.
Yep, Mallrat posted the whole gorgeous work of anti-art to her Instagram page.
“Honest to God… The Sims commissioned me to re-record ‘Charlie’ in Simlish,” goes the caption. “Arguably this is more culturally significant than a Grammy. Full thing’s on The Sims 4: Discover University soundtrack.”
Listen to a snippet of the version below.