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Masque is an expressive, genre-defying rock artist from Hawaii whose music blends rock, dance, and alternative influences with dramatic sensibility and emotional honesty. Openly part of the LGBTQ+ community, Masque brings themes of identity, love, and mental health into his work.
He began releasing music in 2021 and has since built a growing catalog that reflects his evolving sound and vision. During his career he has released 2 albums, Masqued Emotions and Midnight Flames. Later on the artist added their Deluxe versions.
Midnight Flames earned a nomination for Best Rock Album at the 2025 Hoku Awards, marking a major milestone in his career.
Drawing inspiration from Queen and Lady Gaga, Masque creates music that is expressive and honest. With over a dozen popular tracks on Spotify, including “No Matter What” (from the EP God Stands Left) and “Strange Reality” (from the album Midnight Flames), he continues to gain recognition as one of rock’s most promising emerging voices.
“Strange Reality,” originally released on October 23, 2024, now appears in three versions, the original, TV In Bed Remix, and Instrumental Mix, and is accompanied by a chaotic, colorful lyric video. Written by Spencer Luther and John Browne, and produced by Hear No Evil Music and Pierre Grill, the song highlights Masque’s approach to songwriting and narrative.
Artist on the Rise praised his work, stating, “His music is full of innovative mixes,” adding that his “lyrics and music are philosophical, sardonic, whimsical or defiant. Or all four at once.”
On December 3, 2025, Masque released his latest project, an EP called “Christmas for Lonely Hearts.”
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Masque is an expressive, genre-defying rock artist from Hawaii whose music blends rock, dance, and alternative influences with dramatic sensibility and emotional honesty. Openly part of the LGBTQ+ community, Masque brings themes of identity, love, and mental health into his work.
He began releasing music in 2021 and has since built a growing catalog that reflects his evolving sound and vision. During his career he has released 2 albums, Masqued Emotions and Midnight Flames. Later on the artist added their Deluxe versions.
Midnight Flames earned a nomination for Best Rock Album at the 2025 Hoku Awards, marking a major milestone in his career.
Drawing inspiration from Queen and Lady Gaga, Masque creates music that is expressive and honest. With over a dozen popular tracks on Spotify, including “No Matter What” (from the EP God Stands Left) and “Strange Reality” (from the album Midnight Flames), he continues to gain recognition as one of rock’s most promising emerging voices.
“Strange Reality,” originally released on October 23, 2024, now appears in three versions, the original, TV In Bed Remix, and Instrumental Mix, and is accompanied by a chaotic, colorful lyric video. Written by Spencer Luther and John Browne, and produced by Hear No Evil Music and Pierre Grill, the song highlights Masque’s approach to songwriting and narrative.
Artist on the Rise praised his work, stating, “His music is full of innovative mixes,” adding that his “lyrics and music are philosophical, sardonic, whimsical or defiant. Or all four at once.”
On December 3, 2025, Masque released his latest project, an EP called “Christmas for Lonely Hearts.”
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00:00Hey there, I'm Mask.
00:01I'm here to talk about my latest song,
00:02The Pain of the Pain, from my 2026 album,
00:05Midnight Invasion.
00:06I'm also here to talk about my website
00:10at www.maskedemotions.com.
00:13And you can follow me at Mask Music anywhere you have socials.
00:18That's M-A-S-Q-U-E, M-U-S-I-Q-U-E.
00:21I'm here with Yaya Diamond.
00:37Yaya Diamond, Dream Chasers, we won't wait.
00:41Subscribe today before it's too late.
00:44Inspiration flowing just like the breeze.
00:47Chase your dreams and feel at ease.
00:53Be good, be very good.
00:57Hey, what's up guys?
01:00It is a great day.
01:02And I am telling you, I'm telling you,
01:03we have an amazing show today, but it's music.
01:07It's music and I'm just gonna,
01:09I'm gonna go ahead and change the intro right now.
01:25Oh, excuse me.
01:27What's up people?
01:28Listen, I am having a great time.
01:30I heard this new song by Mask and I'm like liking it.
01:35And you know, I'm like more on the blues, R&B soul side,
01:40but this was like fun.
01:41I liked it.
01:42I really did like it.
01:43And I wanna thank you guys so much for tuning in.
01:45We're gonna have that link that he talked about
01:48in the description so that you can go ahead
01:50and jump on over there.
01:51If you wanna listen to the music now,
01:52you can come back to the interview later.
01:54However you wanna do it,
01:54but we got Mask on the show today
01:56and I wanna thank him so much for being here.
01:59Hey Yaya, thanks for having me.
02:01Oh, anytime.
02:02Okay, okay.
02:02So why the mask?
02:04I have to ask.
02:05Okay, so originally it was just a self-confidence thing,
02:08but as time has gone on, I've realized it's a bit of a metaphor
02:11for how I hide myself and how I express myself
02:14and actually putting it on helps me express my emotions better.
02:18And also I realized as time has gone on,
02:20I want people to connect with the music first,
02:23not what I look like and all that.
02:26The music is who I am.
02:28I love that.
02:29I absolutely love that.
02:30I wish that girls could do that.
02:31We can't do that.
02:33I know.
02:33I hope one day you can.
02:35I hope so.
02:36I hope that people just look at the music
02:37and stop looking at people's booties because, you know.
02:39Yeah, exactly.
02:40Yeah, yeah.
02:41I'm not into booties.
02:43Yeah.
02:43I stop making everyone starve and all that.
02:45Exactly.
02:46I mean, I'm into the music and I love that.
02:48I love that you incorporated that mask
02:51because there's so many people that have beautiful voices
02:54and so much stuff to offer, but they're so shy.
02:57Was this the reason?
02:58I mean, I know that you said this kind of hides you,
03:01but does it help you to come out even more,
03:04even though now it's become your persona?
03:06It does.
03:07It actually gives me a bit of confidence to focus
03:10on what I want to say and to express thoughts
03:14that maybe I would otherwise try to keep hidden or toned down.
03:19So this is like your hairbrush.
03:23Yeah, I guess so.
03:25I mean, you know, do you understand what I'm talking about?
03:27Like when I say hairbrush, when you're like a kid
03:29and you got the hairbrush and you're singing
03:30and you're kind of like doing your thing?
03:32You know, the hairbrush is like your savior
03:35from all the other people criticizing you, you know?
03:39Yeah, it's your connection.
03:41Exactly, exactly.
03:42So your music, tell me about your music,
03:44because a lot of people don't understand that music to me
03:47is like the soundtrack of life.
03:49It's like, okay, at this moment, this is the way I felt
03:52and this is what I want to say.
03:53Is that the way it is with you?
03:56Yes, very much each album, you know,
03:58I think about what's going on in my life
04:00and I start writing about it.
04:03And this latest album has very much been about
04:06some harder times, about a lot of emotional struggles,
04:09about how basically tough times mentally
04:13start to become cycles.
04:14You feel good, then something happens
04:16and you start to deal with anxiety and depression
04:18and then you find a way through and then it repeats.
04:21And so I wrote an album about that.
04:24And stylistically, I don't like trying to just do one style.
04:28I like mixing things up.
04:29And so there's a mix of sort of hard rock
04:31and dance songs on the album
04:33to really get the feeling of flow
04:37and to really give you the different insights into my mind.
04:42What I can tell you with a rock song
04:44and what I can tell you with a dance song
04:46are two different things.
04:48I got you.
04:49And I like that, I like that.
04:51I like that we are a part of your journey
04:53at the time that you're going through it.
04:56When you write, what does that bring to you?
05:00Like, does that help to kind of ease
05:03what you're going through at the time?
05:05Does that bring resolve?
05:06Does it bring, like, does it calm you down?
05:11I'm not sure it calms me down,
05:12but it gives me a sense of satisfaction,
05:17the sense that I am truly,
05:20that I am understanding myself,
05:22that I am expanding and growing as a person.
05:33As we talk and I'm looking, save me Lady Gaga.
05:37That's kind of cool.
05:40I absolutely love that.
05:43I love that one, too.
05:44It's, you know, sort of a rock EDM mix.
05:48Obviously, Lady Gaga is one of my favorite artists.
05:50And there have been a number of points in my life
05:52that I've just been struggling with, like in the mid-2010s.
05:58And I would sort of focus on her albums as like, okay,
06:01just only a couple more months until the album, just focus,
06:04just keep pushing yourself and there will be that reward.
06:07And this is, I did this for both Art Pop and Joanne
06:10and both great albums and this.
06:13And so I expressed that in a song
06:14because I still have that similar feeling.
06:18And especially, you know, Gaga just had Mayhem last year.
06:22But I keep having these thoughts of looking for something
06:24to pull me forward when I'm having, when I'm struggling.
06:30And I love that music is like your way
06:34of expressing your struggle.
06:36You know, when you defined it, when you found out
06:40that this was a way that you can actually communicate,
06:44what was that like for you when you started doing that?
06:48It was like a light bulb went off.
06:51Suddenly, everything's clicking.
06:52Like, this is what I'm meant to do.
06:53This is how I find myself.
06:56Everything is connecting.
06:57I am feeling free.
07:00I feel like I'm finally walking down the right path.
07:03It was just a moment of clarity for me.
07:07And the mask, let me ask you about the mask really quick.
07:10I want to go back about the mask.
07:11Was it something that you found immediately?
07:14Or was there like a process that you had to go through?
07:17Like you tried this, you tried that.
07:20It was fairly immediate.
07:21I was thinking about what I wanted to do both in terms of how I presented myself online
07:26and also what metaphors I could come up with.
07:28And fairly early on, I came up with the idea for the mask.
07:32And I haven't looked back.
07:34That's beautiful.
07:35That's beautiful.
07:36So I want to go into the song.
07:38So we're going to talk about the song.
07:39How did this new song come about?
07:41And tell me the title of the song again.
07:43So the song is called The Pain, The Pain.
07:45This is a hard rock song from my album.
07:49It's a pure expression of pain.
07:52It's using one metaphor after another to express the painful parts of my life,
08:00to express the struggles and all that.
08:02And it was inspired actually by the Queen's song, Sheer Heart Attack from the 70s,
08:07which is sort of a harsh, quickly running song for most of it through the verses and the chorus,
08:15and then has sort of this odd-sounding bridge that particularly pushes how harsh you can make a song.
08:22And so I wanted to do something similar, this time doing a very fast-flowing versus somewhat slower choruses
08:30and then an unusual bridge.
08:36I absolutely loved it.
08:37I was jamming over here because I felt it.
08:39I felt like as if, you know, that was one of like a mantra or something that you were going
08:45through
08:45that you needed to kind of talk your way through it and just kind of, you know, put it out
08:50there.
08:50Like this, this is it. This is what I'm going through right now.
08:53You know, when you, when you write, do you always write like that?
08:57I usually do, or I, or I try to do something even better.
09:03I like to find these complex ideas to really get my thoughts across.
09:09Because if I just go to standard sort of pop writing, I feel like it's a dampener on my emotions.
09:19And you have other music that's out too, because I'm on your page for, you have Free Me, Save Me
09:27and Lady Gaga.
09:28We talk about that Forsaken Rhapsody.
09:30I'll be your present.
09:31So there's other stuff that you've been putting out all of these.
09:34How many years have you been doing this?
09:36So I started releasing songs in late 21.
09:41And admittedly, the songs were not the best.
09:43I still had a lot of learning to do.
09:46And I've, my first album came out in 23, my second in 24.
09:51Those were more, the 24 album was much more rock oriented, but I found my focus in discussing mental health.
10:00During, and 25, I released a couple of EPs, notably the Christmas EP, which you pointed out.
10:10And then this year, I've been releasing the dance rock songs for Midnight Invasion.
10:16So it's been a fairly constant process for the last five years.
10:25What do you see in your future?
10:27You know, what is it that you're looking forward to?
10:30I see even more musical projects coming up.
10:34I see sharing my visions with the world, talking with other people, helping, just helping inspire them.
10:43That's wonderful.
10:44I totally agree with you.
10:47And I think that your music has an element that a lot of people are missing, which is,
10:51I'm going through this, and this is where I'm at right now.
10:55Unapologetically, you know, when you think about your music, and you think about helping other people,
10:59or what you want people to take away, what would be your advice to someone who wants to write like
11:05this?
11:05But it's kind of nervous.
11:06I mean, I can see how a mask can just help you just get out there.
11:12Well, you're not going to get anywhere if you don't try.
11:16That's the core of it.
11:17You need to, if you're not sure, then just start writing, start practicing, and then look back and think, how
11:23can I make this better?
11:24Find someone who you can trust to give you feedback, and just don't give up.
11:30Yeah, yeah.
11:31Are you in Hawaii?
11:34I am, yes.
11:35Oh, is it pretty there right now?
11:37It is, yes.
11:38And thankfully not as hot as the rest of the country.
11:41You know, it's hot.
11:45But being in Hawaii, does that affect your writing as well, being in such a beautiful land?
11:52Occasionally, occasionally I'll be inspired to make a song about the beauty.
11:56And I've done a couple of those, Sun Hat and Share Our Love.
12:00Those were, I believe in 23.
12:04And for the most part, it is much more dark stuff.
12:09It is much more emotional.
12:11Because the sound here, the most prominent sound is, you know, that Hawaiian music, ukulele playing, that sort of sound.
12:18And I love it, but it's not the style that I make that I really feel myself drawn to.
12:24So I do find it's not as big an influence as you might think.
12:30Yeah, I gotcha, I gotcha.
12:31Well, I want to thank you so much for being on the show.
12:34Is there anything that we missed that we didn't say or ask that you'd like to answer?
12:38Or do you have something to, you know, say to your friends, your fans?
12:42I just want to say thank you to all my fans.
12:45You've been making this such a great experience.
12:47And I'm working on new music.
12:48You're going to have so much incredible stuff coming up.
12:53I'm going to ask for being on the show.
12:54I appreciate it.
12:55We're going to put all of your links, even your Spotify, because I mean, I found it.
12:59It's not hard to find.
13:00All you got to do is go, but we're going to have the link to your website and everything
13:03in the description box below.
13:05So it'll be easy for people to find your music and actually stream it.
13:08Because if I play it here, you don't get credit.
13:10So we don't want to do that.
13:11We want to make sure that you get credit.
13:13So go ahead and go to that link.
13:15Go ahead and stream.
13:16Look, 0.006 cent.
13:20Leave it on all night.
13:22Just repeat it.
13:23Okay.
13:24Pay the dollar by listening to it all night.
13:27I mean, as soon as he's speaking, I mean, that's how, or go to the website and purchase
13:31it from him.
13:31If he has it available, that'll, that'll help even more because 0.006 cents is not even one
13:37penny for one stream.
13:38And it's just not fair.
13:39And I want to make sure that you guys understand that studio costs way more than that.
13:43All right.
13:44Thank you guys so much for tuning in and don't forget to dare to be different, but most of
13:48all, don't forget to go visit mask and support, support, support.
13:51And until next time, guys, bye.
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