A young Sydney musician has teamed up with iconic video game franchise The Sims to create a soulful rendition of one of her hit songs.
In 2017, Becca Hatch took out Triple J’s Unearthed High Indigenous Initiative, and last year she was also nominated for an APRA award.
Becca Hatch has teamed up with EA to create a Simlish rendition of her song Blessed.
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Now, Becca Hatch joins the likes of Katy Perry and The Black Eyed Peas by having the ‘Simlish’ version of one songs feature in The Sims.
Quest Daily sat down with Hatch to say ‘Sul sul’ and talk all about how she transformed her song Blessed into ‘Boofed’, ticking off a big bucket list items of hers.
“For me this is top tier!”
“I’m just honestly a huge Sims fan, like, my whole life from my childhood. Even now I still play,” she said.
‘Boofed’ has released as part of EA’s The Sims Sessions, a monthly musical collaboration with artist around the globe.
For an upcoming artist like Hatch, having a song feature in The Sims 4 is a pretty big deal, with over 33,000,000 total players since game launched in 2014 – and for many Millennials and Gen-Z alike, Simlish is almost a second language.
“It was so much fun! If I mispronounce it, I can just say Australian accent,” she laughed.
Becca joins the likes of Katy Perry and Paramore to have her song feature in the game later in April.
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Hatch said she knew all about EA’s The Sims Sessions and asked her management team to reach out to The Sim’s creators Maxis and EA – turns out they were really keen on the idea.
“I feel like I literally manifested this – munifeshed I mean, that’s the word, yeah. I feel like I munifeshed this right now.”
While there’s no true way to learn Simlish, there are thousands of translated words.
Sul sul, translates to Hello. Boofed, translates to Blessed. Munifeshed, translates to Manifest.
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Luckily for Hatch, she didn’t need to learn it all with EA translating the entire song for her.
“I spent the whole last year touring and I got so used to like hearing that (original) version. So getting in the studio, it was like, pretty difficult to actually be able to just like pronounce everything properly,” she said.
“The Sims just has such a strong community of people who are really supportive.
“It’s just like a really sick game to be working with.”
Becca’s song will make it to The Sims 4 radio on April 18.
Check out the song below
