Simperium Issue 4: May 2020 | Page 125

My Name is Eleanor Idlewood. I'm a 22 year old songwriter, producer, composer,also a 3D animator and artist. I'm a synthesizer lover. I work as a barista at Starbucks and I live in France! I have been a Simmer since 2017. I love this game! It’s one of my favorite games, along with GTA San Andreas, Vice City, Spore and Dofus. I can play for hours, and I can’t explain why. One day I found myself playing the Sims for 8 hours non-stop. I play with my Sims family, my superheroes squad - I love comic books, especially the X-men comics- my BabyCutieCats, and sometimes I’m also focused on my restaurant & shop. My favorite opus is The Sims 4. It’s the first Sims game I have ever played. It was in 2015, I was in a depression and one of my best friends showed me the Sims and I fell in love. Then, I tried The Sims 3 but I didn’t like it. I tend to play with families, even if I hate the baby and toddler phases in the game, I like building a house for a family and creating some drama because it’s fun. If at any point I had to quit playing The Sims, I reckon the reason would be that my computer must have crashed and died. My favorite thing about The Sims 4 is that we can create EVERYTHING, and I love that. I also love CC and mods. On the other hand I hate babies and the toddlers in The Sims 4 because my Sim must be with the baby or the toddler all the time! Honestly, I don’t know what would help improve The Sims 4 for the better. For me the game is perfect right now as it is. As I mentioned earlier, I’m a music producer, I love the Sims. The Sims can sing, “Voilà”! That’s how I got the idea for this project. Now, for the SIMPERIUM image of the band, the concept of 3 girls who are singing, I got inspired by the Bananarama, a girl group from the 80’s that I love so much! So when I created the 3 singers and imagined a story about them, there were 3 students in art school who were trying to be famous. Regarding the band name “BabyCutieCats”; I found it cute. For their debut album “Nooboo” I recorded The Sims vocals, when my Sims sing in the karaoke for example, and I mixed it with an instrumental I had created. For their next album and the two latest singles “HeartBreaker” and “Falling Down”, they were singing in English with a vocaloid software as I can’t sing. I wrote, composed and produced the songs. These singles are available on Spotify and Apple Music. I can’t do that with the “Nooboo” album because of a copyright about the Sims voices. However, for the “Heartbreaker Remix” album, I have also created a Simlish version of this song and all of the Simlish vocals are created with Vocaloid. So now, every next song of the band will be in both English and Simlish. I chose to “sing” in English 125