![]() “I mean I am Isabella Lovestory - it’s me, definitely - but I feel like you learn about yourself as you explore your art deeper, and as I’m fairly new in music. As she exists in the skin of Isabella Lovestory, she learns about her own person as much as she does her persona. And while she may no longer have the cubicle studio that art school students are so familiar with, she now has the world as her classroom, deploying herself across cities and otherworldly realms. Her persona is strung across multiple media, her fingerprints most evidently marking the glossy sexiness of her music videos (which she directs and edits), their embrace of temporal haste and digital manipulation perfectly suited to her ever-shifting alter-ego. Her disdain for artistic constraint is precisely what she loves about music - it allows her to redirect her creative impulses into an array of outputs. “I hate being told what to do with my art, which is literally all that art school is.” ![]() ![]() “All my teachers hated me because I was a rebel, a bad student,” Isabella says. Born Isabella Rodriguez Rivera and raised in Tegucigalpa by two quintessentially cool parents (her mother an architect and her father a radio host who introduced alt rock to Honduran listeners), she moved to suburban Virginia in her teenage years before relocating to Montreal to study visual art at Concordia University. This oscillation between poles is perhaps what best defines the 28-year-old Honduran reggaeton popstar, whose encyclopedic set of influences and personal style exceed any single aesthetic. “I always go back and forth into really dark and extreme and vulgar worlds… or really fantastical, whimsical, gorgeous, arabesque type worlds. “I think Amor Hardcore is more French, like an Isabelle Huppert-type sarcastic therapist, you know,” Isabella Lovestory says over zoom, comparing her upcoming album’s extreme nature to the protagonist of Michael Haneke’s 2001 film, The Piano Teacher.
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