Katy Perry Rocks the Sims
Warning: Although the above music video is sung in a nonsense language, it is shockingly, disturbingly catchy. It’s Katy Perry’s (she of the disturbingly catchy “I Kissed a Girl” song) new single “Hot and Cold,” which the singer re-did in the nonsense Simlish language for one of The Sims 2 soundtracks. I haven’t heard the English version, but I’ll be shocked if it’s any better; I actually prefer to hear my Top 40 music in other languages, because then I can’t tell how stupid the lyrics are. This is how I deal with J-pop.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.