{"id":37859,"date":"2022-04-03T19:39:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T18:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/?p=37859"},"modified":"2022-04-03T19:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T18:48:17","slug":"celebrating-be-proud-be-loud-be-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/celebrating-be-proud-be-loud-be-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating: Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cb2Fz5nApn3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cb2Fz5nApn3\/ noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-37860 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bpblbhw22b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><em><strong>&#8220;You give me, fire!&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This weekend has been something of an official &#8220;unofficial&#8221; celebration of one of Toyah&#8217;s most glorious pop moments.<\/p>\n<p>The uplifting 1982 anthem <em>Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard) <\/em>&#8211; written by Toyah Willcox and Joel Bogen, and originally released in August 1982 &#8211; and it&#8217;s gorgeous related imagery. With a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5cZNFK4GaUk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Toyah At Home<\/strong><\/em><\/a> special, a retro, and incredibly rare, performance of the song from Italian music show, <em>Popcorn, <\/em>which aired on Italian TV channel Canale 5 from 1980 to 1985!<\/p>\n<p>Official Toyah popped the cherry on the icing of the &#8220;Be Proud&#8221; cake by also sharing a previously unseen shot from the <em>Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard)<\/em> beach photo session.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cSoul deep!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aside from all that, how ahead of the curve was Toyah? The positivity and message of <em>Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard)<\/em> is relatable, and relevant, to right now. And the song still sounds so good, from that zoom-in intro to the very last second&#8230; (Photo \u00a9 Cherry Red Records \/ Screen Caps from a video that is \u00a9 Canale 5)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5cZNFK4GaUk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5cZNFK4GaUk noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37861 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bpblbhw22a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bpblbhw22a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/bpblbhw22a-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You give me, fire!&#8221; This weekend has been something of an official &#8220;unofficial&#8221; celebration of one of Toyah&#8217;s most glorious pop moments. The uplifting 1982 anthem Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard) &#8211; written by Toyah Willcox and Joel Bogen, and originally released in August 1982 &#8211; and it&#8217;s gorgeous related imagery. With a Toyah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,28,2494],"tags":[2913],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37859"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37876,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37859\/revisions\/37876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}