Courtney Love is now employed by Slayyyter. Well, only metaphorically. For Triple J's Like A Version, the Midwestern pop artist covered "Violet" from Hole's 1994 opus Live Through This. Love responded on social media with praise:
@slayyyter will in fact not be returning to St. Louis. She’s employed me to run the salon . Keep wiping the floors with us . It’s a DELIGHT ! ???
Although Slayyyter’s rendition is slightly less gritty than the original, if you had any doubt that she has major pipes, this is proof to back off with any technical criticism.
In an interview with Triple J, Slayyyter explained that Live Through This was an important record for her in high school. She discussed her experience discovering music via Tumblr, diving into riot grrrl edits. "That's where I first came across Hole and Courtney Love."
She added, "I became so obsessed with the way she would perform and the way she would tell the crowd to fuck off. I loved everything about it. I feel like I had never experienced music like that. When you're a teenager, you go through your angsty periods and it would help me get my anger out of my system to listen to that music and scream it in my bedroom. It felt like a full circle thing to cover."
She also discussed her forthcoming "inverse album," which has yet to officially be announced. "I had all these new life experiences to write about and things that had happened since [Wor$t Girl In America] came out. I had this idea to make an inverse album, where everything felt like a flip of a song that came before it. That had certain elements but still a fully new song."
Wor$t Girl In America, by the way, was our pick for the best album of 2026 so far, so we're right there with Courtney Love. Watch Slayyyter's cover of "Violet" and her interview below.
