Deb Antney Talks ‘Deb’s House’ Season 2, Her…
Deb Antney is bringing her unfiltered knowledge to Deb’s House season 2 and telling BOSSIP why this larger, bolder season is sure to deliver back real R&B.
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Following its 2023 debut, which earned Antney a Telly Award, Deb’s House returned Friday, August 22, on WE television with larger stakes and a sharper focus: discovering R&B’s next breakout voice. Throughout the season, 10 aspiring vocalists, handpicked by Antney, will transfer into a luxurious home, where they’ll live, prepare, and compete under her intense, skilled steerage. The girls will take on weekly challenges, vocal boot camps, and live performances testing their stamina, fashion, and star high quality, with steerage from rapper Waka Flocka Flame, soulful songstress Keke Wyatt, and SWV’s Leanne “LeLee” Lyons.
Antney said that when it got here to scouting, she wished to do issues in another way, so she took to social media after being flooded with DMs from aspiring artists.
“ I needed to go and meet you at the taking part in fields, period,” she told BOSSIP. “What better way [to do it] than to meet people than where they are? This is where everybody’s at.”
And when it comes to championing an artist, her focus, she said, is on substance, not superficial markers.
“We wasn’t wanting for magnificence. We wasn’t wanting for dimension. We wasn’t wanting for your inappropriate prowess,” she said. “We was looking for pure talent.”
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That emphasis displays Antney’s frustration with the image-driven tradition of today’s music industry.
“We as girls carry tons and tons of baggage. I’m included,” she said to BOSSIP. “So when you flip your screen on, I would like you to give you the chance to see you. This is real girls. This isn’t about the expertise. It ain’t received nothing to do with it. I would like your expertise and that’s what I would like to deliver back.”
Part of what units Deb’s House aside is its mentorship element. Antney attracts on both her own expertise and that of her co-judges. “When I let you know I like Leelee [Lyons], she’s so real,” said Antney.
She also called Keke Wyatt’s nurturing power important for the ladies in the home:
“Some of them needed that love. Sometimes the love ain’t always good, but it’s that tough love. That real mother love.”
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Antney sees her function as getting ready contestants for the less glamorous realities of stardom.
“All the people start coming… demanding your time… and then one day, guess what happens? [The artist] just explodes and she breaks down,” she explained. “Now she’s either drinking, or she’s going to drugs, or she’s going for pleasurable things. Because although you accident, you really wasn’t ready for it.”
That grounding is what she calls “artist development,” a cornerstone of her profession.
“It’s also important to me for me to have these girls discover, who are you? What is my sound for real?” she told BOSSIP. “The growth — you got the cheat code and [you] got to get in here and grow.”
For Antney, the collection isn’t solely about music, but about self-discipline and self-respect, and she hopes people grasp the show’s broader mission, while having fun with the leisure. “Women will definitely jeopardize their career for a man. But he ain’t going to jeopardize his career for you,” she famous.
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