Hey Violet Talks Touring, Acoustic Hangouts, & Prank Wars with 5SOS

Hi, I'm Nia.

I'm Miranda.

I'm Rena.

And I'm Casey. And we're Hey Violet. And you're watching Young Hollywood.

Yes. So. Hi. Hi. Hey, Hey Violet. Hi. So, I mean, I feel like there's just so much to talk about because can you even believe like where you are in the world right now of just like happening in your life? You have screaming, we're we're sitting at the Troubadour, which is one of the most iconic places in LA. Your hometown. Yes. Yes. You got screaming fans literally lining up, lining up around the corner right now. We've traveled 6,000 miles from England to be here for the gig. It's gonna be a great night. And your, your show sold out in minutes, right?

It did. It's really exciting.

What was the feeling of just when that happened?

We didn't believe that it happened. We thought it was a joke. We we thought it was like, we thought the computer crashed maybe and it said like, oh sold out like it was a technical problem. But then they told us it was actually sold out and we're like, wow. We were prank on us. Yeah, sorry.

And I mean it just the whole, first of all, I'll talk about your your fashion because I feel very, I just feel not cool next to you guys.

Oh, no. But you look so good.

No, but like the hair situation. Like I'm so not on point with that right now. Like look at, I mean, can I just take, I just, I don't even know whose hair I like I want all of it. I don't even know what to do. I'm really boring. I'm really boring.

Yeah, I was just really going for something that stood out, you know. Like in crowds and Yeah, hairspray. Yeah.

How did each of you like figure out your styles? Does it change or is it something you're just like,

So in the morning, in the morning, we look in our closets and we cry because we can't figure anything out. No, um, I don't know, why don't you guys go. Miranda would know.

Okay, I'll answer this question. Uh, definitely especially, like knowing, knowing the sisters for so many years like we've definitely changed a lot how we dress. Um, but I think we all kind of take inspiration from like magazines and weird people walking on the street and like, you know, we all have our fashion icons like mine are Gwen Stefani, Lara Croft. Can't you tell with the like the whole thing going on? No, uh, I guess, um, I guess I agree with that. I just go on Tumblr and I look at all that stuff. I go on Urban Outfitters or Brandy Melville and I'm like, I really just want that and all the magazines. Basically everything she just said. You put weird stuff together. Yep.

See, I'm not good at that. I like can't put weird stuff together. I want you guys to do it. You're gonna have to just do it for me.

We'll we'll put your next outfit together. You guys are our style people. Done, done.

I don't know. I feel like I think I like your pants and stuff. Yeah. You look it.

Okay. Well, I feel more, I feel more reassured if you guys tell me. Okay. Firstly, your music, you just released an EP. Yes. Your, I you guys are like the most badass people I feel like because like I just your music is so like the punk rock like how do you describe your style? Has it changed kind of throughout the whole process? Or,

Like pop rock, I think. It's younger for sure. It's like, it's energetic and it's uh, just passionate. Are you feeling what I'm feeling cuz it's really feeling right. Don't wake me if I'm dreaming. I can stay here all night. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it coming true. I can feel it. I can feel it when I'm looking at you. Are you feeling what I'm feeling cuz I'm really feeling fine. You can borrow from my playlist and we'll hide it from the light. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it coming true. I can feel it. I can feel it when I'm looking at you.

You know, where do you derive like your inspiration from? For for the songs.

Yeah, I guess um, I guess kind of from our own experiences, uh, we enjoy um, going on drives and kind of making memories and just kind of draw from that. Uh, along with listening to tons of different music and kind of I don't know, taking like, taking ideas from our favorite songs too. Yeah. A lot of the artists that each of us like are very, very different. So I feel like, um, we'll get inspiration from some weird eclectic bands or from some really modern, like really well-known stuff. So it kind of goes all over the board for who we're inspired by most.

Right. And then you're headlining, I mean you're on the tour with Five Seconds of Summer, which first of all, I, how do you handle? I mean, because they're, they're the best. I interviewed them a long time ago and they are the coolest, funniest guys. There has to be funny stories that goes on. Tell us, tell us about them.

There are prank wars between the bands. I actually was going to ask you about that cuz I did a fan told me like ask them about the prank wars. That's why it's true. So it happened. Oh, yeah.

Okay, what have been some of the pranks?

We have to be brutally honest. No, go ahead. We filled their room with balloons and cups of water. Like all over the floor.

Okay, hold on. Wait, balloons? Not water balloons?

Let's get a little bit different. One room, we blew up this was a backfiring on because it we all were going to pass out. We were about to pass out like, oh my god, what are we doing? But we filled up like the whole room exactly with balloons and then the other room they placed very carefully cups with water like all along the floor. So close to each other.

Wait, they placed the water?

No, no, we did. We were like, they literally couldn't walk in the room and we put all of their stuff on a, on like a little table way in the back of the room. So they couldn't get to their stuff unless with all the water.

That's kind of amazing. Like where, I don't even know you think, how do you think of that?

That's kind of a classic, isn't it? Yeah, it's that's. The water cup one. Um, the boys also ended up pranking us back with TPN our last song of the set. Yeah, they and their crew just like behind the backstage throwing toilet paper over the stage. We thought they were streamers. We thought it was like streamers or confetti or something. We're like, oh, wow, this was unplanned, but it's really cool. And then we looked and we're like, it's toilet paper rolls. Like, oh. Still cool. We got it. They got it coming next. We got to. We have been slacking. Have you come up with some ideas? We have to. Oh my God. A magician never tells her secrets. We actually need some hints though. We actually do these acoustic hangouts where we get to meet like a lot of the the Five Seconds of Summer fans who have also like, you know, taken our music and everything and they'll bring stuff for us. And it's really sweet. But one of the fans brought this giant prank book. Just full of ideas.

Whoever that was, is a genius. That's actually really cool though speaking of acoustic. So you guys just kind of like do these spontaneous and all the fans just kind of come around.

Yeah, it's usually like before every show, we try and do an acoustic hangout and we just go outside and play songs and take pictures.

And what's like been like one of the cuz the fans are, they're crazy in the in an amazing way, right? They're passionate. They're passionate about you guys. Has there been any, I mean of course there has to be some crazy fan stories.

Wait, I actually have a really funny one in uh, when we were in Kentucky, we did the acoustic hangout and um, we, okay, so we were playing our song was it, "You Don't Love Me Like You Should." And there's like an instrumental break in it and I think it was Nia was like, there should be a rap here. And so someone starts breaking out into uh, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air rap. And then the entire crowd just takes over and they sing the entire thing. We stop playing. We just stop. We stop playing and we're just like trying to sing along to it. So great. And we're then afterwards we're all like clapping. We're like, you guys are awesome. And then then Casey was like, hey, you guys want us to finish the rest of the song? And they're like, yeah. Awesome. That was probably one of the coolest acoustic hangouts. Yeah.

That's awesome. And you and you guys have been traveling the world. So has there been like a certain place that you love or anywhere that you haven't?

Oh. That's really hard to choose. It's so hard to choose. Yeah. Um, I guess it's just like the fact that we get to travel everywhere and it's like a new experience every single day is just incredible to us and we're so thankful for it. So I don't know. I can't put, I wouldn't be able to pick a favorite. Can I just say something though? Berlin had incredible vegan chocolate. Okay. I just would like to say that. And I really, I really miss it. Yeah, there's lots of vegan food there. But there were so many incredible places. But it's also nice to be home, so I you know. Yeah.

But you know, I like your home. Yeah.

And you guys you guys started so young, which is so, I mean like I feel like when I, how old were you when you first started playing together?

Like As a band, yeah. As a band. So. Really young. Yeah. I joined the band when I was ten. Yeah.

So, how did you guys all meet?

Or you guys are sisters? Well, I mean, well. I met her when she was coming out of the womb. Um. We go way back. Yeah. Uh, we met uh, I don't even know. How how did we meet Miranda? What are you doing? How did we meet Miranda? Okay. Okay. We've been having some, you know, awkward band or goes to Okay. We should have had it shared. It was like a really hard decision of who was going to hold the mic and who was going to pass it. I was just gave the mic to you. I was like. It was it was way too. To answer your question. Uh, they were uh, just looking for band members and I sent in some videos of me playing. I was actually on vacation at the time, but I came back, had learned a couple covers, and so we all started playing together. That's weird. No. And then we found Casey on the side of the street. Yeah, that's fun. He just. They were like, hey, you want to play guitar? And I'm like, sure. He doesn't even know how to play guitar. This is the best part. He has no idea how to play guitar. It's all smoke and mirrors. I just get up there and stand there like this sometimes with my hands up and it'll just go for me. He plays a killer kazoo solo. Oh man, you should hear it. None of this is fact. But yeah, but actually they were just jamming with different people and I got invited up to jam with them one day. And then they ended up they ended up liking me for some weird reason. And so I stuck around.

How could you not like this thing? Can you imagine Casey doing a kazoo solo? I think you're going to have to do that actually on one of your next shows now because everyone's going to be watching and be like, we need him, we need Casey to do that.

I mean, it's a cheap thing. I'll just pick one up like a buck. Yeah, it's not that I have three of them. Why? Hit me up.

And then you guys you guys have a lot of pets, correct? Yeah. Because you always like do a lot of social posts like your dogs. Yeah. Okay. So tell me about.

Nia is obsessed with her dog. She's not obsessed. If you insist, I'll show you a few photos. I do. I do. They say I talk to him I talk about him like he's my child. I'm always like, I'm like, look at Edgar, he's so cute. Oh, look, he's so cute. You know those people He's a he's a miniature pinscher, chihuahua mix. He's very cute.

Do you take him, so he comes on tour with you guys, right?

I wish he came on tour. Well, he'd probably pee everywhere. He's he's not well behaved. Yeah. But you know those people that will like show you pictures of their kids and you're like, I don't really care. I think they're cute. I think they're cute. I can't help the fact that he just takes my phone and takes selfies all the time. Oh my god. That's how That's how she attracts people. She's just like, hey. Oh my God. We're going to make that so close to him. It's going to.

Well, oh my God. It was so fun talking to you guys. Thank you so much. And you have fans who are literally like begging to get inside right now. So I'm going to let you get to your show. And hopefully we'll catch up again soon.

Thank you so much. Thank you for having us. Thank you. Thank you.

So just like, what what can your fans look forward to? Because there's so much going on. You have you're on tour and then you just released EP. So what's like what's next for you guys? You're going to be seeing a lot of them. Just put that out there. Hey Violet is going to they're taking over the world. They're dominating.

Well, we're working on writing new music and like once once we're off this tour, we'll go back to like writing and recording. So yeah, new music and hopefully we'll do some shows later this year because I am going to be so stir crazy after tour. Yeah. We we we got a day off for like three days and we were all like, guys, we want to go out. Like, what should we do? You want to do an acoustic hangout? At the house? For the dogs. For Edgar. Edgar, these songs for you.

Getting back really quickly because I meant to ask you about the hair thing. Michael's hair. Do you like coordinate colors? Do you not? So you don't have any coordination?

Um, no coordination. Usually it'll just be like one day we'll see him and we'll be like, oh, you changed your hair to a completely different color. That's awesome. And then another day it's like completely different and you're like, oh, again. Okay, cool. But yeah, I stay pretty consistent. He goes all over the place. You don't give him advice on what he should do. I'm like, you probably shouldn't be bleaching your hair that much. But otherwise, anyway. I think since we've known him, he's had four or five different colors.

Wow. And you guys, you guys are the you stay pretty consistent with your hair color.

I mean, well, kind of. I mean, I have like this patch of blue. She's she's so so so proud of that one little patch of blue. But it looks really cool. I like it. Do the do the thing you do. Uh, okay. Hold on. My butt hurts. One second. We're all squeezed. Can you even see when I do that? I'll get I'll get so close to him. And then sometimes there's purple over here. I'm not sure if it's there right now, but. Yeah, that's it. That's that's her signature move by the way. On stage when she's doing that move, she's trying to show you the blue. I'm just That's how that's how she attracts people. She's just like, hey. Oh my God.