At a Q&A with followers, musician Kayleigh Amstutz—higher identified by her stage identify, Chappell Roan—was requested about her Sims 4 preferences by a member of the group. Roan responded by revealing a deep love for The Sims 2, particularly its GOTY-style re-release, Double Deluxe, and even cited it as an inspiration for her type of efficiency.
A video of the trade was shared by the TikTok fan account allthingschappel—presumably one cease looking for all issues Chappell Roan in vertical video format—however the video appears to have been initially uploaded by the inimitable djpusskyat26. Somebody within the crowd requested Roan what her “go-to Sims 4 storyline” is, to which the performer replied, “Oh lady, I’m a Sims 2: Double Deluxe. I am not Sims 4.”
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“I knew each cheat code,” Roan recalled, “so I’d make everybody pregnant and everybody woohoo. I’d make everybody have twin child aliens, and I used to be a freak and was simply making an attempt to make folks bare. However I could not discover it. I used to be simply making an attempt to make everybody bare.”
I believe that touches on a fairly common millennial/gen z expertise: Furtively exploring intercourse by videogames, getting flummoxed by non-existent Tomb Raider topless cheat codes or ensorcelled by spurious accounts of unblurred “woohoo” scenes in The Sims. We have all been there. I gotta think about youngsters today are seeing stuff in Discord servers or Peter Griffin creepypasta-themed Roblox video games that make my technology’s preoccupations appear tragically quaint.
On a extra critical observe, Roan then mused concerning the lasting impression The Sims 2 had on her creatively: “I used to be actually, actually concerned with Sims 2. I nonetheless really feel like I am in Sims with Chappell—I am Kayleigh proper now, clearly, I’ve stains on my costume and I am carrying my purse.”
Roan has beforehand mentioned how she adopts a definite character when performing, a drag queen persona separate from her regular self. “For Chappell, it is like a Sims character. I can costume her up and put her in a world. I believe that is what I used to be training for [with the] Sims.” Roan completed with another story of juvenile Sims chaos earlier than lamenting that she does not have the sport or her saves anymore—The Sims 2 can be not accessible for buy digitally.
“I beloved to simply make my folks cheat on one another—one thing I don’t take part in,” Roan stated. “I want I had it nonetheless, my Sims 2.”
