Isabella Lovestory - Telenovela

Out steps Isabella Lovestory, less a singer, more a myth made flesh, a Honduran-born visionary weaving fairy-tale horror with club-ready grit. In “Telenovela,” her COLORS performance, she doesn't just sing; she transmutes melodrama into shimmering rebellion, delivering a cinematic crescendo that marks a pinnacle in her blossoming empire.

There’s something alchemical in the way Isabella Lovestory conjures worlds: born Isabella Rodríguez Rivera in Tegucigalpa and raised in Virginia before staking her artistry in Montreal, she embodies a kaleidoscopic identity that seeps into every gesture, rail, and lyric. Her sophomore album, Vanity, released on June 27, 2025, via Giant Music, is a fractured mirror of self, beautiful yet broken, elegant yet edgy, every track a reflection refracted through fantasy and flesh.

“Vanity has a metallic analog vibe: a robotic funeral. Ghost in the Shell mixed with a poppy ultra-feminine sound… shiny yet rusty, fancy yet trashy, like ancient encrusted diamonds.” With words like these, Isabella offers more than music; she offers a sensorial philosophy, a magnetic invitation into her haunted hall of mirrors.

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“Telenovela” emerges as a centerpiece in this gothic-glam carnival, a storm of glitchy electronics, syrupy vocals, and razor-sharp beats. It’s reggaeton twisted through melodrama, projecting the chaotic elegance of a late-night soap opera where lust and power duel in technicolor. Her COLORS debut doesn’t just perform; it transforms.

In that performance, she becomes more than a persona; she is performance art, a hologram of her inner desires. Raised on a diet of Y2K pop, goth electronica, and reggaeton’s underground pulse, Lovestory’s compositions flirt with danger even as they dazzle. Her debut, Amor Hardcore (2022), was a raw, sensual playground where she wielded sex appeal as a weapon and a celebration. Critics hailed her for turning reggaeton into an erotic performance, carving out space for femme-forward expression in neoperreo’s landscape.

But Vanity is more introspective, a peek beyond the glittering surface. She explores fragility, identity, and rebirth. “I don’t mind when things break, I like to collect the pieces and create something new,” she once reflected, a reminder that her artistry is not only about spectacle, but about healing through creation. Recent shows testify to her kinetic force. Following her album drop, she set stages alight at We Love Green in Paris and Primavera Sound in Barcelona, and now she is poised to light up LadyLand Festival in Brooklyn under the K-Bridge, sharing space with FKA twigs, Cardi B, Pabllo Vittar, and more.

What makes Isabella Lovestory compelling isn’t just her bold aesthetic; it’s the story behind it. She’s her own creative engine: writing, producing, designing, and directing her vision. She describes Lovestory as a “hologram of what goes on inside my heart,” a disruptive character through which she unpacks fame, vanity, resistance, and myth. Her art invites us into a duality, a fairy tale and a horror story, a glamorous mirror that shatters, revealing resilience underneath. Walking into Isabella’s world, you don’t just hear a song; you step into a projection, a dreamscape, where beauty is both weapon and wound, and performance is the vessel that carries you through.