@Cinebar Thanks for your advice.
@Sorak4 That silence that you are talking about has to do with one of the later patches they put in the game to reduce their already performance issue. Sometimes I hardly ignore that the music is there at times. If you want your sims to look different, you can change their appearance, and they did add a patch to include wrinkles as they got older so you could tell the difference between Young Adults and Adult sims. I would go to the extreme with their already large custom features to create your own looking sim.