Some artists write songs; Nia Perez writes confessions. Her debut EP, Things I Wish I Said, feels like stepping into a private emotional journal—one she has generously decided to share with the world. The Venezuelan singer-songwriter blends indie-pop warmth with the introspective quiet of bedroom pop, approaching heartbreak not as spectacle but as a lived, unfolding process. The EP’s framing—five songs as five letters—gives the project its emotional backbone.

“If you had asked me two years ago to share these personal letters with the world, I would have run the other way,” Nia shares. “But writing these songs has helped me finally say things I kept inside for too long. We’ve all got those unsent letters; maybe hearing mine will help others send theirs.”

“Shapeshifting” introduces the theme of identity as something fragile within love. Perez explores the subtle ways one can disappear to make space for someone else, singing with a softness that makes the realization even more devastating. “Not Her” then pulls us deeper, its portrait of betrayal laced with longing and painful clarity. It’s no surprise the song has become Perez’s breakout moment—it says exactly what so many listeners have felt and never voiced.

“Oh Sweet July” is the emotional centerpiece of the collection. Perez transports us directly to the moment of a birthday breakup in New York, writing it with the raw immediacy of a memory that hasn’t faded. Each repetition of its central question sounds like a wound reopening, but also like someone finally giving themselves permission to speak.

The final track, “Little Old Flame,” acts as both emotional release and narrative closure. Here, Perez stops asking what she did wrong and instead asks the other party to look at themselves. The EP feels like a healing journey traced in real time—tender, incisive, and deeply human. With Things I Wish I Said, Perez establishes herself as an artist who turns silence into story, and story into connection.

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