Violet Grohl is ready to reveal her debut album to the world, with Be Sweet To Me set to be released on May 29, followed by her first set of headlining shows and dates opening for The Breeders. It’s the next step in the journey that is starting to feel “really real pretty recently” for the 20 year old, who just stopped by the KROQ studios in Los Angeles to talk with Miles The DJ about it all.
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“Doing interviews and press stuff has definitely made it feel a lot more real, and being booked and busy,” admits Grohl. “I mean, all of it started to really fall into place I think once we started mixing the record. I started to feel like, ‘OK, the songs are like done and now we're moving on to the next stage.’”
“I've spent a lot of time making music on my own,” shares Violet, who is releasing her first album, but no stranger to the scene through her upbringing. “It's not my first time going into the studio. It's my first time going into the studio with a bunch of people and working on my own thing. I knew what I wanted to do when we got into the studio and I had a really great team of really, really talented musicians that helped, you know, like glue it all together.”
The sound is a fusion of all of Grohl’s interests, and the title comes from a close personal relationship. “It comes from a kind of saying that me and my best friend have used for a couple of years now,” explains Violet. “We say it to each other when we're, you know, like play fighting or bickering at each other, just kind of poking fun at each other and you know, if the other person's over it, it's like, ‘oh, be sweet to me.’”
“We beat that phrase into the ground and still do, but I didn't have a name for the album for like the longest time. I had no idea what, like how to name an album or what to call this album. I was in Scotland with her and my friend Persia and I looked in my notes app and that was written in my notes app, and I was like, ‘oh, I think it's been in front of my face the whole time,’ like this feels right. And it really at first was, you know, it's kind of an homage to Persia and to our relationship, but at the same time, it is, I guess, kind of a plea or an introduction, like, this is my first time doing this.”
Grohl is stepping out on her own after several high profile appearances with her dad, Dave Grohl, and his band the Foo Fighters. However, when Violet actually signed her record deal, she admits that Dave didn’t find out until after. “We're just busy,” she shares. “I mean, we talk and we text, but, it was something that I've been working on behind the scenes for a little bit and then it took time to get the actual paper together for me to sign. So it was really just waiting for that. And then once it happened, I called him and I was like, ‘hey, I signed the record deal.’ And so I went over, we had a family dinner with a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake. That was kind of it, but I don't know. Yeah, that's just kind of how it happened. We're both just busy just doing things.”
To hear more from Violet Grohl about her inspiration and plans for tour, check out the full interview above. Be Sweet To Me is out everywhere on May 29.
See the full list of upcoming tour dates from Violet Grohl below.
06/04 — Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
06/05 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Lounge at World Stage Live
06/06 — Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
06/23 — Baltimore, MD @ Nevermore Music Hall *
06/24 — New York, NY @ The Rooftop at Pier 17 *
08/23 — Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop Festival
08/28 — Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival
08/29 — Stradbally, IE @ Electric Picnic
08/30 — Reading, UK @ Reading Festival
09/20 — Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
09/26 — Brooklyn, NY @ CBGB Festival
* = with The Breeders
The debut album from Violet Grohl arrives on May 29
The debut album from Violet Grohl arrives on May 29
