Toyah and The Shameful Transformation Pt. 1

Finally, we move onto another puppet/player of interest-an English pop singer, named Toyah Wilcox.
For some months now, I have been wondering, just what in the heck is going on with this woman, her life, and why she has behaved in such contradictory ways.
Back in the late 70's and 80's, she gained a decent amount of interest as a pop-punk singer and performer. Her role was that of the rebel, and many of her songs were dark, angry, rebellious, wild and sometimes, even occult and esoteric.

I was first introduced to her in the 90's, by coming upon an imported fan book of her's. I had never heard of her, but as the years went on, I found out more, and as the Internet grew and grew, finally was able to find out still more about her.
From what I have learned, as a child, she had many physical problems. Lack of hip sockets and a club foot, meant years of surgery and rehab to become fully functional.
Her family already had peculiar signs of dysfunction. She said her Mother was very supportive of her while going through surgeries, but then after having and losing another baby named Fleur, her Mother no longer hugged her. In addition, she never spoke with her daughter, ever again, of the passing of her sibling. This, of course, is extremely unhealthy, and bizarre-especially if to this day, she still can't or won't hug her Mother. Yet, mysteriously, says they are close. Her Mother also expressed resentment for Toyah's birth, interrupting her own career.
(Toyah front here, in red hair)

In her late teens/20's she landed some acting roles, as well as a cult classic punk film called,'Jubilee'. Eventually, she began performing with a band, going by 'Toyah'(though she would continue to be known by that name afterward going solo). She had lots of press, and some hits, with a pretty decent-sized following. Among the press, she did a one hour interview/documentary for British Television, about herself and her music up to that point. In this show, she reveals that she was moved by the H. R Giger art picture book,'Necronomicon'.

This book, viewed as a classic by some, is full of artist H. R. Giger's vision of a hellish,satanic, nightmarish place, coupled with futurism(He also designed the famous alien for the film,'Alien'). Creepily, when Toyah found a copy of this book, she said that she had had dreams with the images inside of it. She claimed she had not only seen these images before as a child, but that one of the demonic creatures came to her, shoved her on her bed and said, as she put it,'Some not very polite things to me'.

(Some of Giger's Alien artwork )

Toyah has also admitted to practicing black magick, putting curses on others, and sleeping in a coffin for a time. The spiritual disturbances she introduced into her life, crossed over into her family's life also. From a 1981 interview:

As a pupil at an all-girls' public school in Birmingham, she put curses on some of her classroom rivals. "I would put them on girls who had been really nasty to me.

"They'd do very badly in end-of-term exams."

As well as her own curses, Toyah also experimented with ouija boards and levitation, though she says she has now stopped practising black magic.

A chilling experience shook her family when she was just 14. Toyah takes up the story.

"My sister was working in a hospital cancer ward, which she found very disturbing. One particular day, an old lady died and she was very distressed.

"That night my sister was in her room and the old lady appeared by way of thanking her for her help.

"My sister began to rise out of her bed - levitate - and, in the next room, so did my father. He nearly had a heart attack!

"Meanwhile, posters in my room had started flying in all directions.

"Similar things happened to me all the time. We always thought the house was haunted. And it wasn't until my sister married a psychiatrist that we realised we did it.

"I get a lot of letters from adolescents who say things like that happens to them. At the time, I thought I was going mad."

Toyah added that, even now, she's the only one who can sleep in her old bedroom in the house.

"It's as if I left something of me there... my vibrations." she says.

"My mother had to sleep there not long ago. She woke up in the night to hear a man's voice saying what he wanted to do to her!"

But Toyah's bedroom was in no way as chilling as the spot where she later slept. that was an empty South London warehouse... and her bed was a coffin in which it was said she slept naked.

"I certainly slept in a coffin," said Toyah. "But as to sleeping nude, I don't see what I wore or didn't had to do with it."



At this point in her career, she was less concerned with being pretty or feminine, but loved fashion and makeup. She seemed rather against what females are conventionally supposed to look and behave like in popular culture.
She also shared a great desire toward Egyptian religion and pagan/esoteric practices. Her song,'Iyea', has such creepy lyrics as,

Ieya,
Solar
Ieya,
Calling
The perfect sphere,
A star
My crystal vase,
Exploding
Ieya
Solar
Ieya
Calling, calling, calling you,
Solar’s calling
Calling, calling, calling you
Tell me can you hear me?
Are lasers interfering?
Can you hear me?
Calling, calling, calling, calling

I’m calling you,
I’m calling you,
(It’s Ieya,)
I am Solar
(Messiah),
Calling,
So you’re the prefect sphere?
A star,
I’m a beast, the shiny beast
Mate me, the beast
(Messiah)
I am Solar
(Messiah)
I’m the beast


In addition, she even says she is 'chanting' within the songs lyrics, as they continue. Saying such words as 'Necronomicon', strange names and a serious of clicks with her mouth. The entire song is extremely occultic, and may very well be a spell or ritual. Curious to, how the sun worship plays heavily into her songs and images of herself at this time. And considering how important the sun is to elites and those in occultic power(and those behind the media), this is pretty disturbing. What was the story here with Toyah's obsession with such dark and ritualistic beliefs?
Below are some images of her, and albums which repeatedly feature the sun. Often, her orange-yellow hair would allude to this sun imagery/sun rays, or be somewhere in the image. This is repeated with Toyah, over and over as she went on...

Her hair is not naturally red, but she has bleached and dyed it for years. Usually, it's red or some shade between blond and red.

From being a more aggressively punk, rebellious type, the next stage has her as a sort of rebellious, free spirit, with more mention of her freedom. Her pursuit of this has been of major importance in her personal code of life.

In the song,'I Want To Be Free', she talks about being bored, not wanting to do anything like attending school, or wearing anything ordinary. She also suggests people get rid of their tv and car, and without these things, we don't know who we are. These lyrics, are particularly interesting, because in her later albums, you will never see anything like them again.

For the video that accompanies the song, she is being monitored in a black-walled room, by two, middle-aged authority figures-male and female. They look on disapprovingly as she dances around, making messes and at one point, emerging from being buried in what looks like sand, and also completely wrapped from head to foot in tin foil.
Periodically, the editing of the video shows her inside the observation panel, standing between the two stern figures, but then, is back inside the room, being observed(like an animal in a cage, or experiment). Finally, at the end, she is behind the observation window again, when a 2nd Toyah below, looks up, sees her other self, and is stunned.


Anyone with even a general knowledge of how the media and the entertainment industry works, knows musical idols are not just to entertain, but to lead, or persuade in some capacity. In Toyah's example, I am sure many young people thought about the occult with greater interest, and sang along with some of her chants, unaware of their true meaning.
I suspect that Toyah is not fully in control, thus her craving to always be 'free'. But we'll examine that more later...

The image from the above album has her as a sort of warrior fairy, holding the head of her oppressor from a battle, I assume.
In her song,'Brave New World', she is singing about moving on and new beginnings. Though the book by the same name, is a horrific look at the future, where babies are born in labs, and parents are not included in their lives. They are raised by the government, and heavily programmed not to cry or have any feelings that cannot be corrected with a heavy, mood elevating drugs. Funny how her relationship with her parents was equally removed, in another way.

Nevertheless, in the video, she emerges from the ocean, and climbs upon the shore. Eventually, she rides past a wasteland of the shells of buildings, to arrive in a strange city, where everyone is frozen, and statue-like.
The scene changes, and she is strapped down, straight jacketed, a lazer is being shot into her, and she screams in pain. Then, back in the city again, surrounded by the statue-like people, she finds a normal looking human, huddled nearby. Raising them up, they grab and shake her arms, and point her towards the ocean again. She returns back to the water, from whence she came. Sometimes, I wonder about the actual symbolism behind such videos, and how much predictive programming are contained within them.
Eventually, Toyah's rebel or even fantasy-freedom-fighter, wasn't what the elites wanted her to be. So, she is repackaged and made into something she never, ever showed any interest in before-a cookie-cutter, overly sexualized stereotype.



One fan on youtube said Toyah claimed she didn't like the direction that her manager was taking her career, at this point. Personally, with her seemingly strong personality, I could not imagine her even remotely being ok with such a plastic image. It simply made no sense.
In her cover of the song,'Echo Beach'(a bad, cheesy cover at that),she is shown as a business woman, in an office.
The woman(Toyah), is watching her computer screen, which shows the 'new and improved Toyah', dancing about, like a work out video, and looking traditionally female, and far less unusual or artistic. The alternate, computer Toyah's face extends from the screen, and beckons her to come inside. It's snaps a finger, and she is the wet-haired character, dancing around and trying to be hip and sexy.
Back in the office, the other Toyah is literally shredding photos of her 'old selves', wearing the creative hair and makeup. Then, she copies a photo of the 'new Toyah', and looks at it approvingly.
Near the end, we see a closeup of her eye, and the dancing, new Toyah inside. Finally, she finds herself stuck inside the computer with the new Toyah, as the office version turns off the screen, keeping her inside.

Seeing as this is a blog, dealing with occult, secret societies, and mind control in the Industry, I am sure you can see some of these threads throughout this woman's career, so far in analysis. The strange family interraction, the occult practices, her videos, depicting a puppeted, possible-mk slave. This is especially seen from the above video period, onward. You wouldn't be seeing the 'old Toyah' again, as the 'New Toyah', killed off that alter to make room for the new plans.

In my next entry, we will see Toyah pull a 180, and marry, and a continuing thread of odd, evil and suspect symbolism and career choices...