\u201cI\u2019m beyond grateful for the life that I was born into,\u201d she told The Forty-Five<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s such a privilege to be able to be around musicians and in a space that nurtures my interest and allows me to grow and to make a record.\u201d<\/p>\n Violet went on to acknowledge that \u201cobviously, doors are open for me because of my last name\u201d. She added: \u201cIt\u2019s not something I\u2019m ever going to hide behind or say, \u2018No, I worked so hard for this! You guys shouldn\u2019t say that! That hurts my feelings\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t care \u2013 I really don\u2019t. I\u2019ve heard that since I was 13 years old. So call me a nepo baby all you want. It\u2019s \u2018whatever\u2019 to me. I just hope that eventually people will give me a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n The artist, who was recently added to the line-up for Reading & Leeds 2026<\/a>, then urged naysayers to \u201ccome see me live\u201d. She said: \u201cCome listen to my music and then you can decide for yourself if I\u2019m worthy of this career or not. This is my passion, this is my thing \u2013 and it\u2019s all I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the conversation, Violet recalled performing with the surviving members of\u00a0Nirvana<\/a> \u2013 Dave, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear \u2013 at the Fire Aid benefit concert in LA<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n Violet looked back on when she first realised she wanted a music career, saying: \u201cIt was around the time I started singing backing vocals for my Dad. It was such a crazy experience.\u201d<\/p>\n She also spoke about how she had been \u201cfollowing Billie Eilish<\/a> since the beginning\u201d, adding: \u201cWatching her open up this path for female musicians in this alternative pop space that\u2019s still beautiful, it was just so incredible to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Violet began hitting the road with Foo Fighters in 2018<\/a>, providing backing vocals at numerous gigs. She performed with them at the tribute concerts<\/a>\u00a0held for late Foos drummer\u00a0Taylor Hawkins<\/a> in 2022, too, and featured on the band\u2019s 2023 song \u2018Show Me How\u2019<\/a>. Violet\u00a0appeared with Foo Fighters at that year\u2019s Glastonbury to perform the track<\/a>.<\/p>\n She released a cover version of \u2018Nausea\u2019, originally by Los Angeles punks X, alongside her father Dave<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n The Foos frontman credited his daughters for introducing him to Eilish in 2019<\/a>. Then, in 2022, Dave said Violet and her generation would \u201ccreate the next revolution\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n Later in the new interview, Violet discussed deciding that she wanted to focus on \u201calternative rock music\u201d for her own project, after teaming up with producer Justin Raisen (Kim Gordon<\/a>,\u00a0Charli XCX<\/a>,\u00a0Sky Ferreira<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s what felt right to me at that time of my life,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we just had this weird telepathic thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Dave previously\u00a0expressed his desire to appear on Violet\u2019s first album<\/a>. Earlier this year, he revealed that he had \u201cno idea\u201d that his daughter had signed a record deal until she told him at dinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cShe made this album with a producer named Justin Raisen, and she did it on her own,\u201d he explained. \u201cShe met the producer, and they would go to the studio every day and she would send me songs when she was finished. But I had absolutely nothing to do with this record at all.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cSo, I\u2019m totally uninvolved. I\u2019m the dad who wants to be there and know everything. And she\u2019s just totally doing her own thing. It\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n Violet signed a major record deal at the start of this year, and shared the songs \u2018Thum\u2019 and \u2018Applefish\u2019<\/a>. In March, she released the single \u2018595\u2019<\/a>, which was \u201cinspired by a vintage t-shirt advertising a phone sex line\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n The singer is yet to announce any UK headline dates in support of the forthcoming \u2018Be Sweet To Me\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Violet Grohl has shrugged off claims of her being a \u2018nepo baby\u2019, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018whatever\u2019 to me.\u201d The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,641],"class_list":{"0":"post-392567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-pop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026_violetgrohl_bella_newman_2000x1270.jpg\")
Violet Grohl. CREDIT: Bella Newman<\/p>\n