RAGE BY DIEGEAUX

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The album cover represents the theme of the album and what is narrated from “The Exposition”. He states “They was painting him as a villain. He took the portrait, bought a frame. Wasn’t looking for love anymore, was trying to make you feel his pain”. Thus, the cover showcases DIEGEAUX as a slave in pain surrounded by women in goddess-like clothing creating an intriguing color palette. The women represent the idea of love he believes we are all in pursuit for, and in contrast, materialism, toxicity, and lust. It’s intended for viewers to misunderstand him as a womanizer, “the villain”, etc. but once looked at closer, his a humbled and vulnerable man who just wants love. The chains in the cover also represent materialism, but more specifically, financial burdens and hardships he’s experienced while in pursuit of love and as a young man in todays time of superficial and unrealistic expecta,tions of men.

RAGE is a conceptual indie album created in full by DIEGEAUX. It is also his first official release on streaming platforms. The concept of RAGE is about the frustrations many people feel socially and intimately when being portrayed as “The Villain” while in genuine pursuit of love and fulfillment. These frustrations also apply to the ideas of materialism, toxicity, and lust that people use to define love and fulfillment.
The concept is introduced in a storyline format where multiple variations of voices from women represent a single woman lead and DIEGEAUX is the lead man in the story, accompanied with other voices of men to represent his friends/associates. The variations of voices from women also represent how men unrealistically pursue love from multiple women at a time. The story begins before he meets the woman lead and after being fed up with society, in effect, becoming full of himself due to separation and disdain. This inclines him to want companionship from the lead woman. Absent-minded, the desire he has for her is very unhealthy and naive because he wants her before knowing of who she truly is. 

They indulged in a very lustful relationship with each other. It obviously doesn’t work out, and she ends their relationship over the phone. He’s given up on the idea of love he believed to exist and declares that love isn’t real because of how people use it for their own subjective desires and how they all create their own meanings of it. Shortly after, he rejoins society in “FTS” where everyone reinforces the toxic narrative that everyone is “for the streets” and no one is worth being loved. At the end of the album, he reveals that only half of the album was released and that there is much more to come. The concept, album (being lyrics, music, mixing, mastering), and marketing/ photoshoot plan where all created in his college apartment closet and by himself with collaborative efforts from those listed in the credits.