Slayyyter Covers Hole's 'Violet' for triple j's Like A Version — and Courtney Love Approves
Slayyyter took on Hole's 1995 single 'Violet' for triple j's Like A Version segment, and the song's original co-writer had something to say about it. Courtney Love responded on Instagram, telling the pop artist to "keep wiping the floors with us." Pitchfork
Like A Version is triple j's long-running cover segment, where visiting artists perform a song of their choosing alongside an original. The Australian broadcaster shared video of Slayyyter's performance on its official TikTok account. TikTok
Hole, the alternative rock band fronted by Love, released 'Violet' on the 1994 album Live Through This. The track became one of the band's most recognised songs and a defining piece of the decade's rock landscape. Slayyyter, whose work sits in the pop and dance-pop space, is not an obvious successor to that lineage — which is part of what made the cover land.
Love's reaction came via a comment on Instagram. Her phrasing — "keep wiping the floors with us" — read as encouragement rather than mere approval, framing the younger artist's take as something worth continuing. Pitchfork; Instagram
For Slayyyter, the Like A Version slot places her in a tradition that has hosted artists across genres, from established names to rising ones breaking into wider attention. A cover on the segment often circulates well beyond Australia, driven by triple j's social channels and the programme's international following.
The exchange between Love and Slayyyter is the kind that travels fast — a foundational rock figure passing a torch, or at least signalling she does not mind someone picking it up. Whether it points to further collaboration or simply stands as a moment of mutual recognition, the facts are these: one artist covered another's song on national radio, and the original writer told her to keep going.
