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Zydeco music is featured in the video game The Sims: Unleashed when traveling to Old Town on the Shuttle Bus (while the game loads Old Town), during building mode in Old Town, as well as other scenarios. The songs are in Simlish, but certain Zydeco tracks such as "Les Haricots Sont Pas Salés" are clearly recognizable. The theme of the game, with its new lots and music, is considered Cajun or Zydeco. One could compare it to New Orleans' French Quarter with voodoo shops and jazz musicians appearing on commercial lots. This theme returns in The Sims 2: Apartment Life and The Sims Castaway Stories. It can also be heard in The Sims 3 on one of the cooking television shows.
Country music performer George Strait's 2009 album Twang includes a song called "Hot Grease and Zydeco".
Zydeco music is also a central theme in the German award-winning 2003 film Schultze Gets the Blues about a retired polka-playing miner living in rural eastern Germany, who, after hearing Zydeco music on the radio, without knowing a word of English, embarks on a tragi-comical odyssey to Louisiana.
Zydeco music is featured in the pop song "Cupid Shuffle".
Paul Simon's 1987 album Graceland features a track called "That Was Your Mother" that references zydeco and Clifton Chenier, the "King of the Bayou".
"Zydeco" is the title of a song by Lil Boosie on his 2010 mixtape, 225/504. It features a contemporary zydeco rhythm and beat throughout.
Weird Al Yankovic made a style parody of this genre with his song "My Baby's in Love with Eddie Vedder".
In the TV show Gilmore Girls Lorelai auditions a zydeco band for her wedding to Luke in the episode "A Vineyard Valentine".
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