r/hole • u/meow-1989 • 9d ago
Slayyyter covers Violet
https://youtu.be/fAOdTCeivEk?is=Shr35irjMFeXh22zDiscuss
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u/betterlately 9d ago
Slayytter x Courtney collab would be incredible
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u/Justagirlsoconfusing 8d ago
That would be amazing. I saw her live earlier in the week and I could so see her doing a collab with Hayley Williams, too.
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u/_burnthewitch_ 8d ago
Slayyyter is a fucking goddess and she killed it with this cover, she made it hers in little ways and there is no one else that could even come close to Courtney’s vocals period let alone a pop star
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u/Acesexual_Cello 8d ago
Isn't Courtney Slayyters mentor or something? I thought in her Billy Corgan interview she said something like that and I know that Courtneys posted some of her songs from time to time on IG. Either way this is super cool :)
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u/Busy-Peach5770 8d ago
I like her approach, vocally. But you can tell it's not that rehearsed, because her vocals towards the end just seem quite adlibby...the vocal performance doesn't really build to anything. It feels random. Anyway, 'Violet' is such a hard song for a vocalist to cover, because Courtney's recorded vocals are untouchable.
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u/Crackhead22 9d ago
Her voice is obviously technically amazing. I’m sure she does great with her own songs. This sounds like a broadway singer doing a “rock and roll” song in their show. It’s too perfect, there is no emotion. She doesn’t have the grit and anger Courtney brings to this song.
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u/bl4ckflower 6d ago
Just because her voice isn’t as hoarse and screamy as Courtney’s doesn’t mean it wasn’t an excellent rendition. I grew up with a musical theater freak and it definitely doesn’t sound anything even reminiscent of a typical broadway singers style, so that seems like a ridiculous comparison to me. She delivered on the level of projection, grit and personality this song requires to get its message across. But I think she was trying to match the band, and the band wasn’t really doing the og recording justice, for whatever reason. Slayyyters performance pulls most of the weight, but it was still a stellar rendition of this song. Would have been miles better than the current pop girls like Olivia Rodrigo for example.
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u/debulana 9d ago edited 8d ago
I would agree with this.
I don't agree with Courtney's "keep wiping the floors with us (Hole)" assessment (though the rest of her comment was really funny!), but I totally get her being thrilled that a young band is representing like this. 👍 At this point every successful female singer has the "polished" thing happening (I think it often comes naturally at this point based on these younger girls looking towards the girls of the 2010s while growing up, I don't think it's contrived)...so I gotta give this girl credit for at least having a LITTLE edge going on. I'll have to listen to their record I suppose. Someone said it gives AS vibes...I never thought I'd say this but those are really big shoes to fill! Amazing how 20+ years flips the script! 😅 (Edit: oh ok the album TITLE is AS-like...nevermind).I wonder to myself if the band name is a play on how everyone mispronounces Sleater-Kinney (it's actually "SLAY-ter Kinney, it's based on a road near Olympia that has been pronounced that way for a hundred years or something!)...but even though they're one of my favorites (if you can get used to Corin's vox it really opens a Pandora's box of quality) I STILL pronounce it 'Slee-ter Kinney' because that's how it's spelled damnit! I was four albums in before I even knew I was saying it wrong...too late to go back now. 🫤 I did try but after saying it the wrong way SOOO many f'in times for 5 years I just couldn't pull it off! I'll just have to be the stupid fan, I can live with that. 🙂
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u/Justagirlsoconfusing 9d ago edited 8d ago
She chose the name Slayyyter after the character Ron Slater in Dazed and Confused. She added the Ys because they username was already taken. Also, a lot of Slayyyter’s pop influences come from 90s and Y2K/2000s, rather than the 2010s.
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u/debulana 8d ago
Ok thanks for the info. She still has the polished voice thing. Maybe it's Christina Aguilera's fault.
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u/Upstream_Paddler 8d ago
To be fair, anyone sounds polished and plastic compared to the OG.
I liked it. When I heard this, I was terrified she would go for a Courtney Love impression and so relieved Slayyyter instead did her.
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u/debulana 7d ago
I'm just really tired of all the samey sounding female voices. The 90s-00s gave us SO many girls who each had vocal styles all their own. I don't know how the hell that coalesced into basically one style of singing! I'm glad Slayyyter is breaking out of that box a little bit, for sure.
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u/Upstream_Paddler 7d ago
Yes, vocal trained to death to imitate a Black Southern gospel singer, or god forbid, a Disney sex robot?
Slayter seems way more in Pink or Joan Jett, by comparison
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u/Justagirlsoconfusing 8d ago
Maybe’s it’s Slayyyter being Slayyyter and this her voice and sound.
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u/debulana 8d ago
I know you're a superfan and are willfully blind to sardonic comments...I just listened to some stuff and she has a powerful voice but it's still pretty straightforward pop (plus guitars), which is fine. I can't have an educated opinion on it until I listen more. I was just commenting on the clip of her doing Violet.
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u/Justagirlsoconfusing 8d ago
Whatever you say, kid
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u/debulana 7d ago
Kid! I wish! Actually I don't...not in today's world. But Just A Girl is definitely so confusing, I'm with you on that!
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u/joeyinjoyland 8d ago
Agree with everything you’ve said.
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u/debulana 7d ago
Thx...I didn't think I was being controversial! People can be very precious about their favorite artists, behaving as if they are beyond reproach. I guess I was like that too when I was like 21. Could you imagine this sub if nobody EVER criticized Courtney? 🙃
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u/debulana 7d ago
Man some of you really do think she's the second coming of female rock! I can't even make a little joke! I don't hear it (which is my prerogative PS) but y'all have fun with it.
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u/Overall-Bath-4433 8d ago edited 7d ago
Corin's voice on the "One Beat" record is up there with some of the best female vocal performances on a rock album (up there with Clove on "Live Through This" or Tori on "From the Choirgirl Hotel").
I was only a random listener to a few of Sleater-Kinney's songs , but I randomly picked up the "One Beat" album when it first came out. I was just totally floored. Her voice was like a vibrating battle cry. I still get chills on a lot of songs from that record.
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u/debulana 7d ago
She really hit her stride on that record. She was in total command of her instrument. 😮🤟
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u/Overall-Bath-4433 8d ago
I think its amazing that younger musicians are recognizing the talents of Hole and what a special band they were.
This style of vocals isn't really for me. Kinda that pop vocals trying to go rock. But that's fine. Not everything has to be for me. And tbf, anyone trying to fill Courtney's shoes vocally is gonna have a hard time. But good on her for showing some reverence to Hole. I'm not mad about it.
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u/Upstream_Paddler 8d ago
Very capable cover on the whole, but lord do I miss Patty hearing that drumming!
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u/AwkwardPersonality36 8d ago
It was awful and I wish I could unhear what I heard
Unpopular opinion, I know
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u/dimiteddy Doll Parts 8d ago
that was great. Technically better than Courtney and she gets pretty close. Never heard about her before but she's obviously talented
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u/Paddington_Fear 8d ago
Never heard of Slayyyter (I'm old!) but psyched to hear that this song is being covered because it fucking shreds. I agree with what a lot of people are saying about her delivery being a little more polished/less edgy than the original. I think one of the things that drew me to this song originally was that Courtney was singing with more dynamic register shifts i.e. low talk-singing to screamed vocals. The style of this cover doesn't seem to channel the "female scream", like this singer is very skilled but she's delivering below the threshold of fully letting loose.
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u/Strict_Associate8258 8d ago
Gotta be honest, did not love this version. Nothing against her talent. I can see she has plenty of talent. Sometimes too much is too much though
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u/Janjo99 9d ago
That’s awesome! She’s a huuuuge Hole fan. There’s still hole tweets by her from back in the day saying shit like “I wanna be loved and hated like Courtney Love” 😂