Venezuelan-born singer-songwriter Nia Perez introduces her debut EP ‘Things I Wish I Said,’ a five-track project that reads like a stack of unsent letters pulled from a bedroom drawer. Blending indie-pop with bedroom-pop intimacy, the release pairs polished production with lyrics that feel handwritten and personal.
Each track functions as a chapter. “Shapeshifting” explores identity loss inside a relationship, tracing the slow erosion that happens when you bend too often to meet someone else’s expectations. “Not Her,” now her most-streamed song, captures the sting of betrayal while observing an ex who keeps searching for familiarity in someone new.
“Oh Sweet July” revisits a breakup that fell on her seventeenth birthday in New York, turning a private memory into a shared ache through the repeated line, “how could you do this to me?” On “Cognitive Dissonance,” she leans into the psychology of toxic attachment, mapping how fear and desire can circle each other. Closing track “Little Old Flame” offers release, threading lyrical callbacks through the EP and landing on a pointed question, “Do you like you now that you’re all alone?”
Beyond the music, Nia extends the project’s concept into real life. Her website hosts an anonymous space where listeners can submit their own unsent letters, while her newsletter, Get My Letters, arrives three times a month. With more than 20,000 Spotify listeners and over 50,000 YouTube plays, she is building a community drawn to emotional precision and unfiltered storytelling. “We’ve all got those unsent letters,” she says. “Maybe hearing mine will help others send theirs.”