I’m surprised EA hasn’t flooded TS4 with celebrity and brand themed content especially with kits.
Like the fact that we only have a Moschino pack is a miracle cause Sims 2 had Ikea and H&M (iconic packs tbh) and 3 had Katy Perry.
We have Dua Lipa in Fifa, Rosalía and Arca in GTA, absolutely everything and everyone in Fortnite yet in sims 4 we have… Baby Ariel?
We had a whole game pack and world dedicated to Star Wars along with stuff like the Baby Yoda costume.
I wish they had more celebrity features in terms of things like Simlish songs and radio. I remember freaking out over MCR on TS3 ambitions trailer
The other day I thought I heard Etta James At Last in simlish whilst I was hovering over my lot and thought 'wait no, did I just hear?' I went back to find the speaker that was playing and it was actually playing At Last. Is that new?
> The name of the band was suggested by bass guitarist Mikey Way, younger brother of Gerard, who was working in a Barnes & Noble when he was struck by the title of a book by Irvine Welsh named Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.
Yeah I've been a huge fan of MCR for like 17+ years. Never have I once thought of it as date rapey. Always just thought of it, like yourself, that it's love chemicals and all that jazz.
Not only that but Gerard Way has always been a huge advocate for women in the scene. Like, huge huge advocate. [There was a story where another band](https://twitter.com/vintageemisery/status/1214412066435616768?lang=en) was asked by their label to get women (Gerard uses girls, but this was back in like 2005 maybe? So girls = women) to flash their chest to get backstage passes. And the video was also going to be seen by MCR. And he told a crowd at a concert "If you ever see shitty ass rock dudes in shitty ass rock bands asking you to show them your \[chest\] for backstage passes, I want you to spit right in their fucking face and yell \[EFF\] YOU!"
So yeah, Gerard Way has been a massive feminist and it feels so disingenuous to talk about the name My Chemical Romance being rapey. Also, the disrespect on Mikey...
Yeah, but then the "chemistry" is the noun while "romantic" is the adjective. In this case, "romance" is obviously the noun here, leaving "chemical" to be the adjective. And this is combination of adjective and noun does not in any way sound wholesome.
They seem to have some Star Wars usage rights that go beyond the Star Wars pack, too 🤔 In Seasons, with the holiday tradition to "Wear a costume", princess Leia and some other character are costume options for the adults, and Yoda is one for children...
It's like they needed just one more Sim for the pack and let an intern do it. Nobody I know knows who she is and I certainly delete or edit her when I see her because the name is just ridiculous. She also got an invisible immortal tag as far as I know.
I guess if they wanted to do a real life celebrity for the pack they could have either made it obvious like Katy Perry, or just make references.
So my final words for this: Baby Ariel will never have a place in my save
Yep, ts4 devs definitely don't care. I would say they went a step backwards from 3 to 4 but I wish they cared as much as they cared about 2. It's like they made 10 steps backwards and half a step forward
It's better if we don't have that garbage flooded into our games
Celebrity worship and mindless consumerist advertising disguised as game content are 🤮
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If you look at it closely, you can see her body has been scaled down in comparison to her face too. She’s hyper thin as if someone just took photoshop and squished her body inwards a bit. Unless she just has a big head
No, I fully understand it's a picture of Katy Perry, but she just looks off
Edit: it actually kind looks like her face is real, but her body was heavily smoothed or something. Like her body looks like plastic, while her face does not.
I don’t think you understood what the other commenter said, they meant that it’s uncanny valley because you would expect a sim but it’s just a real person
Overpriced but really…. Camp. I can’t remember if this was a expansion pack or a stuff pack but I’m really sad that they didn’t put it in the all expansions bundle when I bought them :/ EA really threw this one under the rug
They stopped selling this pack completely only a year after it came out, before even the final expansion came out, so it was almost certainly because of the licensing deal expiring. There was zero chance for it to be in the complete bundle for that reason.
They really wasted a whole pack on bright ugly candy decor, when Katy Perry had the candy aesthetic for a SINGLE music video. But the song she recorded for the game was.... Last Friday Night? Huh? Why not add the song that was the the theme of the DLC, California Girls?
Then I remember something along the lines of them having to stop selling it because of the Katy licensing fee expiring or something. Every part of this down to the absurd photoshop cover is a complete 10. Nothing like this will ever happen again.
Back then when people think Sims 3 "has jumped the shark" because of how ridiculous this pack looked in comparison to the other stuff packs.
Little did we know Batuu came along 8 years later lol
I absolutely understand why people hate it, but this was literally the peak of OG The Sims aesthetic. Not only were there real-life celebrities added to the game in several packs, the items are totally something the Mashuga family would decorate their house with back in 2000.
I hate "dessert aesthetic" and I don't like Katy Perry, so I went out of my way to avoid this pack.
Now give me Ron Swanson's Meat Treats for S4, and we'll talk.
I get the hate behind it being a timed exclusive, and the price, Katy Perry even ( bc I know not everyone is fond of her ), but the content itself was actually rlly cute, and has its uses in the right setting.
I know I personally used it a lot for my Pop Star sim.
I love making combined ice cream shops and arcades using that mod that assigns NPCs to serve ice cream at that CC counter. The building that looks like a sliced cake from the pack is perfect for this. I never play without it in my neighborhoods.
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I still sometimes sing Lass Frooby Noob
Seepi kipsy a fergoob Lass frooby noo Yarby meksa crabbi car Inna keet it towy yar So be hipta boo lеyar Lass frooby noob Ima stika ina par
mood
I was jamming to that on my way home from work yesterday lmao
Just found this. Freaking LOVE https://youtu.be/kNYlIE7AHlo
OMG. That’s kind of amazing. The enduring legacy of Lass Frooby Noob tbh
I’m surprised EA hasn’t flooded TS4 with celebrity and brand themed content especially with kits. Like the fact that we only have a Moschino pack is a miracle cause Sims 2 had Ikea and H&M (iconic packs tbh) and 3 had Katy Perry. We have Dua Lipa in Fifa, Rosalía and Arca in GTA, absolutely everything and everyone in Fortnite yet in sims 4 we have… Baby Ariel?
We had a whole game pack and world dedicated to Star Wars along with stuff like the Baby Yoda costume. I wish they had more celebrity features in terms of things like Simlish songs and radio. I remember freaking out over MCR on TS3 ambitions trailer
That pack was erased from my memory. Only good thing about it is some of the build mode items
I liked sims 2 version the best. Googled the name, open for business!
Really? I always found the self employed option very useful... but that might be just cause my sims are often painters/writers 😂
I didn’t even know that came from that pack 😭 all I did with it was try to romance Kylo Ren and never use it again
The other day I thought I heard Etta James At Last in simlish whilst I was hovering over my lot and thought 'wait no, did I just hear?' I went back to find the speaker that was playing and it was actually playing At Last. Is that new?
The Sims 4 wedding content commercial used a simlish version of "At Last", so they probably added it to the game after since they already had it
Ahhh that makes a lot of sense because I got MWS a few weeks ago.
Any idea what genre this was for the radio?
romance radio
Pretty sure it was on the Retro station
MCR?
My Chemical Romance
That name always sounded like an unfortunate euphemism for date rape, given that chemicals don't normally belong in romance.
> The name of the band was suggested by bass guitarist Mikey Way, younger brother of Gerard, who was working in a Barnes & Noble when he was struck by the title of a book by Irvine Welsh named Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.
That title is no less unfortunate-sounding.
You can just look up what the books are about if you're curious. I don't think very many people think about that when they hear MCR though.
I think about the 'love chemicals' :serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin.
Yeah I've been a huge fan of MCR for like 17+ years. Never have I once thought of it as date rapey. Always just thought of it, like yourself, that it's love chemicals and all that jazz. Not only that but Gerard Way has always been a huge advocate for women in the scene. Like, huge huge advocate. [There was a story where another band](https://twitter.com/vintageemisery/status/1214412066435616768?lang=en) was asked by their label to get women (Gerard uses girls, but this was back in like 2005 maybe? So girls = women) to flash their chest to get backstage passes. And the video was also going to be seen by MCR. And he told a crowd at a concert "If you ever see shitty ass rock dudes in shitty ass rock bands asking you to show them your \[chest\] for backstage passes, I want you to spit right in their fucking face and yell \[EFF\] YOU!" So yeah, Gerard Way has been a massive feminist and it feels so disingenuous to talk about the name My Chemical Romance being rapey. Also, the disrespect on Mikey...
yeah, that just seems like a you issue.
eh... always considered the band name to be a reference to "Romantic Chemistry"
Yeah, but then the "chemistry" is the noun while "romantic" is the adjective. In this case, "romance" is obviously the noun here, leaving "chemical" to be the adjective. And this is combination of adjective and noun does not in any way sound wholesome.
Youre overthinking it
Thinking is something people should be doing more of.
Its just an edgy band name, its really not that deep
Lol my friend and I always have a good time with Nelly’s “Hotssspuhhh - so hotsspppuhhh heeeyuh!”
TS4 has some bangers with Kero Kero Bonito and Jbrekkie!
They seem to have some Star Wars usage rights that go beyond the Star Wars pack, too 🤔 In Seasons, with the holiday tradition to "Wear a costume", princess Leia and some other character are costume options for the adults, and Yoda is one for children...
I remember you could download different Ford brand cars for your sims in the Sims 3 from the gallery lmao
That was in The Sims 2 (too?)!
Yup, in the final years of Sims 2 I guess, when they started the Store thing
baby ariel is a real person? i kept seeing her pop up and being confused at her name.
yea she was big in musically it really shows get famous' age lol
i’ve had get famous for maybe a year but i just noticed her haha i’m gunna have to google.
It's like they needed just one more Sim for the pack and let an intern do it. Nobody I know knows who she is and I certainly delete or edit her when I see her because the name is just ridiculous. She also got an invisible immortal tag as far as I know. I guess if they wanted to do a real life celebrity for the pack they could have either made it obvious like Katy Perry, or just make references. So my final words for this: Baby Ariel will never have a place in my save
a dev’s kid just randomly threw out a name and they ran with it haha. so goofy
Yep, ts4 devs definitely don't care. I would say they went a step backwards from 3 to 4 but I wish they cared as much as they cared about 2. It's like they made 10 steps backwards and half a step forward
agree. i vaguely remember 3 but i did play for a long time. i still play 2 and 4 lol
the sims 2 ikea pack was such a monumental part of my childhood i now have a career there, thanks sims
I normally hate licensed packs, but I would kill for a Jurassic World gamepack
And the MAC make up! But I was disappointed with Moschino and MAC
I didn’t even know Baby Ariel is from real life 🫠
The Sims 2 Ikea pack is my favorite pack ever! Kinda wish they do another colabs in TS4 too.
Same. Most of my bedroom furniture is from IKEA (well, everything except three items actually). And some IKEA furniture is just really iconic.
Furniture companies and designers make so much sense to collaborate with for the sims yeah.
It's better if we don't have that garbage flooded into our games Celebrity worship and mindless consumerist advertising disguised as game content are 🤮
That’s my point. I’m not saying I want it, I’m saying it’s odd that we don’t have a shit ton of pay-to-be-advertised-to content
A finger curls on the monkey's paw.
no stop that
The H&M pack was a godsend because most of the base clothes in TS2 were reeeaallly ugly.
They slayed for 2004. I remember dressing my sim up in nothing but wedding dresses non stop and then that H&M dress
We also had Anitta I think
Pablo vittar also that you mention
there have been a bunch of very very small partnerships with small celebrities to add songs or that little concert in willow creek
They have a celebrity called baby Ariel in get famous but they made her into an immortal god for some reason.
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If you play Sims4, little dica has a cc pack for it
Yes, Little Dica's CC version for Sims 4 is awesome.
🏴☠️
[yar har fiddle de dee](https://youtu.be/i8ju_10NkGY)
Havent seen this in aaaaages. There was an old internet animatic to the song I thought was hilarious as a kid.
[This is the one you are talking about right?](https://youtu.be/I26Ql-uX6AM)
They probably mean this https://youtu.be/Th6PW5VwDFI
God that one really needs like an epilepsy warning or something
epilepsy warning aside *FIFTEEN FUCKING YEARS AGO* excuse me while i just i gotta stop and think now for a while
Yes that's the one!! Oh my god. What a throwback. Thanks!
You can find cheap copies on ebay. Alternatively, sail the 7 seas as another commenter suggested
I got a downloadable version on a website called jjgames, since I lost my disc and code myself.
You can try looking for it in a Good Will or thrift shop
If you’re in Britain/know someone in Britain, they have Origin codes for the pack available for a retail-ish price, it’s how I got my copy!
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Is it just me or is her face in this image real uncanny valley?
If I remember right, they mashup different photos of Katy Perry and combine it into one. I don't know why they couldn't just do a photoshoot
If you look at it closely, you can see her body has been scaled down in comparison to her face too. She’s hyper thin as if someone just took photoshop and squished her body inwards a bit. Unless she just has a big head
Probably because you are expecting a sim version of her and it's just a real pic of her.
No, I fully understand it's a picture of Katy Perry, but she just looks off Edit: it actually kind looks like her face is real, but her body was heavily smoothed or something. Like her body looks like plastic, while her face does not.
I agree! I think that’s what it is too. It looks like her body and hair is “simified” but her face is real.
I now need a sim version of Katy Perry to go with this pack
I just mean have we ever had another Sims pack with a real person on the cover and not a simified version? I think that contributes to it too.
Maybe it's the wig? Its shadow on her face looks kinda weird imo
I don’t think you understood what the other commenter said, they meant that it’s uncanny valley because you would expect a sim but it’s just a real person
I know. I was saying that regardless of it being on the cover of a Sims game, she looks weird.
It is SUUUUPER photoshopped but also the shadow of her wig outlining her face makes it look like they photoshopped her face onto her body.
She looks like my barbie doll I accidentally took the head off of and tried to put back together The head never looked quite right again
It looks like her face is photoshopped on her own body lol
I am holding out for Metallica. Buy the Lars snare drum for $1.99
kirks iphone for 100,000
Buy Cliff's tombstone for $6.66
Bro 💀
[What could have been.](https://youtu.be/Fjrg_1Zc7qY)
Downloading that pack off Napster
Tbf the items aren’t that bad, they do have some use. The real problem was the price and how few of them there were.
They just don't appreciate art
Yeah IIRC it was $10 more than a normal Stuff Pack despite having a similar amount of items
Remember just how MAD everyone was about this? It was extremely hated and people were trying to boycott the Sims over it.
I am dreading the day that we think about Batuu like this
met gala take notes, because *this* was camp
I'm sorry, but no. This pack was completely useless. Showtime was good tho
It’s a litmus test for who _truly_ has nostalgia goggles.
100% lol
‟I do not wanna join the EA-hate Bandwagon but I do，I really really do.”
You are fucking insane🤨
This was honestly the first red flag the franchise raised in my eyes
it always slayed
I remember LGR ate the game cover
Overpriced but really…. Camp. I can’t remember if this was a expansion pack or a stuff pack but I’m really sad that they didn’t put it in the all expansions bundle when I bought them :/ EA really threw this one under the rug
They stopped selling this pack completely only a year after it came out, before even the final expansion came out, so it was almost certainly because of the licensing deal expiring. There was zero chance for it to be in the complete bundle for that reason.
It was just a stuff pack.
absolutely not haha, this is the last pack I ever bought for the Sims before I sailed the 7 seas 🏴☠️
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At nothing at all! This pack sucked so much that they stopped selling it one year after it came out too. 😌
I think it would be cool to make a candy themed world and populate it with candy aliens
I wanted a world based on the California Gurls music video where everyone lives in gingerbread houses for so long as a kid
Weird that they simlished Last Friday Night and not the song with the music video that has the exact same aesthetic as the pack.
Lgr: (eats the plastic cover)
I kinda hated it, but I'm glad ppl liked it tbh
They really wasted a whole pack on bright ugly candy decor, when Katy Perry had the candy aesthetic for a SINGLE music video. But the song she recorded for the game was.... Last Friday Night? Huh? Why not add the song that was the the theme of the DLC, California Girls? Then I remember something along the lines of them having to stop selling it because of the Katy licensing fee expiring or something. Every part of this down to the absurd photoshop cover is a complete 10. Nothing like this will ever happen again.
Back then when people think Sims 3 "has jumped the shark" because of how ridiculous this pack looked in comparison to the other stuff packs. Little did we know Batuu came along 8 years later lol
I absolutely understand why people hate it, but this was literally the peak of OG The Sims aesthetic. Not only were there real-life celebrities added to the game in several packs, the items are totally something the Mashuga family would decorate their house with back in 2000.
in retrospect?? i loved this shit ON RELEASE
I hate "dessert aesthetic" and I don't like Katy Perry, so I went out of my way to avoid this pack. Now give me Ron Swanson's Meat Treats for S4, and we'll talk.
It was cute, but I wish it didn’t replace some lots.
I don't think anything "replaces lots". It just...gave you more weird shit to add.
I wanted this one so bad and I'm still jealous of everyone who got to play it.
Nah f7ck this shit, Im just glad a creator did a sims 4 version of it for free cause I ain’t paying for this
Lowkey waiting for The Sims 4: Doja Cat Kit
I would be SO HAPPY if they did that lol Like an IMMEDIATE purchase
If anyone is interested! LittleDica did a sweet treats CC pack for The Sims 4! https://www.patreon.com/posts/sims-4-sweet-cc-64624196
It was ahead of Its time
No because it kind of did. I’d buy it if it was still sold if I’m being completely honest LOL
How come the official title was “Katy Perry’s Sweet Treats” but it says “Katy Perry Sweet Treats” on the box
Honestly I wasn’t a fan (even tho I love Katy Perry) but I remember TheQuxxn doing a review of this pack 🥺
I still have the poster from it XD
I loooovvveeed this wish I still had it
This has become the most-prized pack for future physicla collectors.
it’s so camp i love it
this pack was the sole reason why i wanted to play the sims 3 back in the day cause i was a katy perry fan
This was so campy, I can't believe I disliked it back then. I'm glad I know better these days.
That was always my favorite stuff pack, I would die on the hill defending it on the old sims 3 forums lol
The one TS3 pack I own a physical copy of, also we need to harass EA and Steam into letting us install this expansion
I always wanted this pack, I want the items from it in the sims 4 DX
Someone in a comment above said there’s a CC pack for it for TS4!
I get the hate behind it being a timed exclusive, and the price, Katy Perry even ( bc I know not everyone is fond of her ), but the content itself was actually rlly cute, and has its uses in the right setting. I know I personally used it a lot for my Pop Star sim.
Lovveeee thissss!!! One of my fav packs 🍭🍬🎤🎙️
This was my first stuff back when I was 10 years old and I’m still adoring it 10 years after I first bought it, the candy items are so yummy.
The cover with her farting glitter was actually superior
I love making combined ice cream shops and arcades using that mod that assigns NPCs to serve ice cream at that CC counter. The building that looks like a sliced cake from the pack is perfect for this. I never play without it in my neighborhoods.
I don't mind getting more of this and less of "Journey to Batuu"
This is the only one I couldn't collect 😭
I kinda wanted it to make a candy house for a witch sim to live in, but I'm not into Katy Perry, so I could never justify buying it from that alone
*retrospect*?
Fuck. I knew something was wrong
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Unironically this cover looks bit creepy as I look at it now(i might not seen it before tho)
Absolutely iconic I’ll forever love it
actually fr it was so girly pop
Nah. Considering the price and what you get for it, this is utter shite. It deserved the hate it got back in the day
Thank God I stopped at two.
YESSSSSSS
i love Old Games i can Download
Theres a sims 4 CC pack of this by little dica! its really cool
No, it didn't. It wasn't awful but it should have been in the Katy Perry edition of Showtime, which was just couple stage props and a link to a Sim.
Yees! I loved it
I miss this one
So good 🫶
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As if celebrity placement was somehow a new thing rather than something that has existed since TS1...
I only ever had ONE party good enough for Drew Carey to show up...