Love, Loss, and Late Nights: Inside Anie Delgado’s Electrifying New Ep "Hopeless"

Photographer, Elias Posada & Creative Director, Rosemary Delgado

If there’s one artist who knows how to make chaos sound beautiful, it’s Anie Delgado. The Cuban-American pop powerhouse blends honesty, heartbreak, and heat into a sound that feels both cinematic and achingly human. With her latest EP, Hopeless, Anie dives headfirst into the rollercoaster of romance, the dizzy highs, the crash landings, and every messy, magnetic emotion in between. It’s raw, it’s relatable, and it’s downright addictive.

Born in Miami and raised between the vibrant pulse of Cuban culture and the laid-back charm of coastal Florida, Anie’s story is as colorful as her music. Domino games, dancing until dawn, and classic Cuban tunes filled her early years, before her family relocated to Melbourne, FL, a sleepy surf town that taught her simplicity and introspection. It was there she picked up her first guitar in 4th grade and began writing the kind of heartfelt songs that would later define her artistry.

After high school, Anie chased her creative spark straight to New York City to study acting and singing before heading west to Los Angeles in 2018. There, she found her true rhythm as a songwriter. Her debut single Galaxy marked her arrival, and soon after, she turned heads with Dancing While the World is on Fire, a track celebrated by Billboard for its clever lyricism and activism-driven message on climate change. But with Hopeless, Anie is turning inward, trading protest for passion and self-discovery.

“I wanted to explore the manic highs and rock-bottom lows with a brutal honesty that I haven’t seen in pop music before,” she explains. “It’s pulled directly from my diary.”

And Hopeless really does feel like cracking open the pages of someone’s heart. Each track offers a new perspective on love’s contradictions, how it can save you, ruin you, and make you do it all over again.

Track by Track:

“99¢ Jesus” – A fearless breakup with the male gaze. Inspired by her experience growing up in the conservative South, Anie dismantles the illusion that a woman’s worth depends on a man’s validation. Produced by Gary Dillon and co-written with George Gleeson, this one’s equal parts empowerment anthem and pop confession.

“1111” – Her love song and her wedding song. Written for her now-husband (and tied to their November 11th wedding date), it’s a shimmering ode to healthy, soul-refreshing love. Produced by Adrian Isias, Michael “Trash Boy” Giovenco, and Pablo Martinez, it’s a dreamy yet grounded track that reminds us love can be gentle and electric all at once.

“down with you” – A Bonnie-and-Clyde-style ode to toxic love. It’s the sound of ignoring every red flag and jumping anyway. Delgado’s theatrical storytelling shines through here unapologetically human, painfully real.

“Mátame” – Anie’s first Spanish-language song, co-written and produced by Jose Sanchez. Vulnerable and haunting, it captures the desperation of a love that’s reached its breaking point. The lyricism cuts deep, shifting between anguish and rebirth, a powerful nod to her Cuban roots.

“Hopeless” (title track) – The full circle moment. It’s about meeting someone new, knowing you’re about to repeat your mistakes, and falling anyway. It’s the perfect closer, cyclical, self-aware, and strangely comforting.

For Anie, Hopeless isn’t about perfection, it’s about feeling everything. “I hope people embrace the beautiful messiness of seeking connection in this world,” she says. “It’s sad and painful and messy and exciting all at once, and to me, the journey itself is the destination.”

And that’s the beauty of Anie Delgado, she doesn’t just sing about love, she lives it. Every lyric, every chord, every shift in production feels deliberate yet effortless, tying together a collection of songs that pulse with emotion and clarity.

Following the success of her acclaimed debut EP You Ruined Forever, Anie’s evolution is undeniable. Hopeless is her most self-assured body of work yet, worldly, relatable, and brimming with pop brilliance. It’s a project that feels like a late-night drive with the windows down: liberating, tearful, and full of heart.

With Hopeless, Anie Delgado proves she’s more than just a pop artist, she’s a storyteller with vision, voice, and vulnerability. A fully-formed piece of art in motion. And if this EP is any indication, the best is still to come.

Listen to “Hopeless” on all streaming platforms now.