Slayyyter covers Hole’s ‘Violet’ on Triple J’s Like A Version, and Courtney Love calls it “a delight.” Watch it here
Slayyyter walked into Triple J’s Like A Version studio and did something quietly audacious. The pop provocateur, best known for glossy, hyper-online club records, picked up Hole’s 1994 grunge anthem “Violet“ and made it hers. The performance went live this week during her sold-out Australian tour, and it landed with the kind of co-sign most artists only dream about: Courtney Love herself.
The cover is not a costume. Slayyyter has spent the last year building a reputation as a party-starter, but her roots run deeper than the sugar rush suggests. She called “Violet,” the searing opener from Hole’s landmark Live Through This, one of her favorite songs of all time. You can hear that reverence in the take. She trades her usual digital sheen for live grunge chords, moving between gritty snarl and soulful croon, channeling Love without impersonating her.
Courtney Love Approves
The blessing came fast. Love publicly praised the rendition, calling it “a delight.” For an artist whose entire aesthetic borrows from the messy, defiant femininity that Hole helped codify, there is no higher validation. One report noted the cover was strong enough that Love joked about coming to work for her. The lineage, from ’90s riot-adjacent grunge to 2026 pop maximalism, closed into a loop in real time.
That connection is the whole point. Slayyyter’s music has always been a knowing collage of pop history, and here she made the influence literal. The grunge and the glitter were never as far apart as they looked. Both are loud, both are theatrical, both are built on turning private wreckage into public spectacle. Watching her inhabit “Violet” makes the case cleaner than any interview could.
A Ballad in Disguise
Like A Version asks artists to bring one cover and one original, and Slayyyter used her own slot to reframe how people hear her. She performed her latest single, “Brand New Chanel$,” the follow-up to this year’s “Beat Up Chanel$,” and with a full band behind her the track shed its studio polish entirely. What reads as a shiny pop song on record became, in the room, something closer to a spine-tingling rock ballad. It was a small reveal with big implications about where she might be heading.
The timing is not incidental. Slayyyter released her third studio album, Worst Girl in America, earlier this year, and its lead single “Dance…” cracked the top 15 on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Pop Songs chart while earning her a spot on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in May. She is in an expansion phase, and the Like A Version appearance functions as a thesis statement. She hinted to the show’s hosts that her next project may push further in this direction, which makes the “Violet” cover feel less like a one-off tribute and more like a map.
There is something fitting about all of this happening in Australia, on a beloved radio institution, far from the American pop machine. Stripped of the algorithm and handed a guitar, Slayyyter proved the thing her fans already suspected. The pop star can actually sing, and the grunge kid was in there the whole time.
Watch the full performance below.
