Ile-de-France Artist Deybo Tackles the Dangers of Social Media in New Music

It is with apparent lightness that Deybo, an artist from the Ile-de-France in her twenties, decided to devote her music to the dangers of social networks and the abuses of influencers while a law is in preparation to regulate their practices. .

“I follow her, I share, my brain hostage”in its title released a week ago and titled “I am perfect“, the Ile-de-France singer Deybo, whose real first name is Deborah, denounces the excesses of influence, this practice which aims to use her notoriety to advertise products.

She sees it as a form of manipulation that encourages constant comparison and that she decided to highlight in this song, when a new law was recently passed to better regulate the sometimes fraudulent practices of these web stars. . “There is something unhealthy in influence, there is a desire to manipulate our minds to make us buy more“, confides the artist. “Some influencers take advantage of the naivety of a young audience to make them believe that they have formed a very strong bond, that they truly love their audience, when they just want to sell their product.“

It is with this outspokenness that Deybo launched into music four years ago. To make herself known and forge a “community”, she must then invest in social networks like Instagram. “I started to publish a lot and very regularly. This is where kids and young teens came to talk to me, they started telling me their problems, stories they didn’t even dare tell their parents..”

While she is still looking for herself musically and does not feel ready to talk about too intimate subjects, she decides to make all these testimonies, symptoms of the danger that social networks can represent, her favorite subject. “I understood that there were a lot of vices on social networks and especially that it affected a lot of people“.

In his other pop-style song “Trucs Limites”, Deybo talks about complicated subjects such as the hypersexualization of young girls, ill-intentioned people in need of child pornography content, or even the eternal quest for attention and recognition. “They do not realize that they are putting themselves in danger. Some are not suspicious, they talk to strangers and sometimes have very bad encounters.“Sensitive, Deybo confides that it makes her sad,”when it doesn’t make me angry“.

While the Senate recently unanimously adopted at first reading a bill aimed at better regulating the activity of influencers and combating abuses on social networks, the singer calls for more supervision and monitoring of the part of the parents. For three years, she has been in contact with associations such as e-Childhoodwhich try to better protect minors against the risks posed by the Internet.

A real scourge when in 2019, according to the association Point de Contact, France was third in the ranking of countries hosting the most child pornography content. Another alarming observation, in 2021 e-Enfance reported a 57% increase in online violence among young people. Cyber ​​harassment, revenge porn or even blackmail on camera are all forms of violence carried out on a daily basis.

A subject close to his heart:I am obsessed with freedom, and I find that social networks deprive us of this freedom. It’s a form of enslavement where everything is centered on the like, the children come to determine their value according to the number of likes collected.

She nevertheless recognizes positive aspects to these new media: “Among the young people who have come to talk to me, many are in great pain. They sometimes experience domestic violence, and in this case the networks are a real way out for them.“. On a personal level, the networks also offer him the freedom of expression necessary to launch himself as an artist.

Because since 2019, the young woman from Vincennes has been multiplying projects and constantly changing hats. Alternately singer, author, composer, she is also a pianist and decided a few years ago to set up her own orchestra.

For nearly two months, she has also embarked on stand-up with her show “Inventez-moi!”. “I show on stage almost every night, in total improvisation. The public participates, they give me funny words and from that I invent humorous songs“A daring exercise, but one in which she fully blossoms.”In stand-up I can invest myself much more emotionally. I have a lot more freedom, even if it’s a leap into the void each time, I never know what will happen“.

In July, Deybo will release a new single called “Donnez-moi R”, “R” meaning “nothing”. In the same vein as these two previous titles, she tells the story of a young girl stunned by an overflow of social networks and new technologies. Ode to rest, and to the quest for oneself.