A free full-length soundtrack album for The Sims: Superstar has also been released for download (complete with cover art), with several tracks sung in Simlish. Lyrics for these songs were posted on the official website. They are sung to the tune of " She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain", " Michael Row the Boat Ashore" and " On Top of Old Smoky". In The Sims: House Party and The Sims: Vacation, Sims sing Simlish campfire songs. Sims can listen to Simlish music on cheap boomboxes or fancy stereos with the release of Hot Date, they gained the ability to listen to music on wall speakers on Community lots. It has given rise to several memes, jokes and tributes.
There is no official recognition of this, but it is the only phrase consistently repeated by the Sims, and always as they are departing a building or social situation. The only "agreed upon" Simlish phrase with an analog in real English is "sul-sul," (SOOL-sool, /sul.sul/) which is a greeting phrase. Wright wanted the player to be able to tell whether a Sim is feeling flirtatious, upset, laid back, or tired, based entirely on their tone and tempo. The team went out to record hundreds of voice clips in Simlish, each with their own unique cadence and emotional nuance. He found that this problem persisted even when he tried using Navajo, Ukrainian or Estonian, but that, because the gibberish of Simlish was so far removed from any existing human language, it was very difficult for players to detect repetition in it. One of Wright's biggest concerns while developing The Sims was that giving the characters actual dialogue would have made such dialogue extremely repetitive, because even if Wright had been able to fit five CDs' worth of voice clips into the game, players would eventually have started hearing the same voice clips over and over again.
The actual sound of Simlish was improvised by voice actors Stephen Kearin and Gerri Lawlor. Wright later commented that using a nonsense language turned out to be the right development choice, as people were capable of imagining it more realistically than a computer could simulate a real language. He also decided that Simlish worked best as a "language" made up of gibberish words that could not be translated, so that the dialogue's meanings would be left open to the imagination of the player. Simlish was created because Will Wright, creator of The Sims, knew that the game needed dialogue, but thought that using real-life languages such as English would cause the dialogue to be repetitive and would be expensive translating the entire dialogue Sims may say.
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