Honduran pop star Isabella Lovestory brings the drama with her new single “Telenovela”. Isabella began the year with previous single “Putita Boutique” featuring Argentina’s TAICHU, and a collaboration with PinkPantheress and Shygirl on “True Religion”.
“Telenovela” marries old school reggaeton drums with new wave electronic sounds akin to the likes of Depeche Mode. The accompanying music, directed by Charlotte Rutherford, fuses similar visual parallels by juxtaposing the camp of Mexican Telenovelas with the eerie absurdity of David Crongberg cinema [spoiler alert: she gives birth to a TV].
Over the past two weeks, Isabella has teased her own telenovela style shorts over her social media channel. Isabella has been dropping hints through a series of singles teasing her chameleonic and unabashedly flamboyant sophomore album coming this summer. “Telenovela” adds more fuel to a fiery campaign that began with last summer’s standout singles “Botoxxx”, “VIP” and “Puchica”, and her Plastic Fantasy tour which hit Mexico City, Monterrey, Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo and Chile. Isabella also played a series of summer festival dates in Europe, and closed 2024 with a beloved set at iii Points Festival in Miami, which she documented in a photo diary with Interview Magazine.
Announced last week, Isabella will play LadyLand Festival in Brooklyn at Under The K Bridge, joining a lineup that features the likes of FKA Twigs, Cardi B, Pablo Vittar, Eartheater, and more. Fans can also catch her at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound and Paris’ We Love Green Festivals this June.
Born in Honduras before moving to the US and then Canada at 17 years old, Lovestory has positioned herself as a trailblazing force paving her own way at the cross-section of pop and reggaeton making her and icon in experimental music. In 2022, she made her mark with her debut Amor Hardcore, which Pitchfork characterized as “playful, maximalist, and flirtatious to the core.” With an experimental reggaeton sound equally influenced by Spanish trap and goth electronica, Isabella’s forthcoming body of work extends her maximalist sonic experiment even further outside the lines, drawing on her beloved Y2K pop influences, textured synth-wave, her K-pop peers, and the defiant unapologetic women she looks up to, such as Lady Gaga and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon.
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