{"id":29275,"date":"2013-07-25T16:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=29275"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:53:18","slug":"cultssplash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=29275","title":{"rendered":"Cults Song Includes Temple Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"07-12\"<\/a>In July 2011, the music group Cults released a video<\/a> of their popular song, \u201cGo Outside.\u201d The video was inspired by \u2013 or was an extension of \u2013 the sampling of the so-called Jonestown death tape<\/a> which appears at the beginning of the track. It goes into the life of Peoples Temple itself, presenting film footage from the Temple\u2019s history \u2026 with an artistic twist.<\/p>\n

The song had already been made before as a video<\/a> directed by Patrick Hoelck featuring Emma Roberts as a woman who steps \u2013 however briefly \u2013 from a television screen into the fantasy life of David Franco.<\/p>\n

This edition of the jonestown report<\/em> includes A Director Under the Influence of History<\/a>, an article by video director Isaiah Seret who discusses the creation of \u2013 and response to \u2013 the recent video. In Talking with Cults: Conversations with a Video Director<\/a>, former Temple member Don Beck (who met Seret under his online name of Eiredon), writes about his interactions with the director since he first came upon the video in a Google search.<\/p>\n

The video premiered on Boing Boing<\/a>, although it also appears elsewhere. The lyrics to the song appear on the lyricsmania<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

A number of reviews and critiques of \u201cGo Outside\u201d appeared in the weeks following the video\u2019s release. Among them:<\/p>\n

\u2022 A review<\/a> of a live performance in The Los Angles Times<\/em> on 28 July 2011.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cults Video Director Finds Muse In Jonestown Massacre<\/a>, in The Huffington Post<\/em> on 22 July 2011. <\/p>\n

\u2022 Cults: Indie pop duo draws flock of followers<\/a>, in The San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> on 21 July 2011.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cults\u2019 \u201cGo Outside\u201d music video incorporates Jonestown footage<\/a>, at Straight.com<\/em> on 15 July 2011. \u201cSo, no bodies are shown, but the video\u2026 creates a profoundly creepy sense of foreboding. My question to you, the reader\/viewer is whether this is a valid artistic use of the imagery of Jonestown or an exploitation of the tragedy?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The video was also featured at the quarterly Flux Screening Series at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on September 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In July 2011, the music group Cults released a video of their popular song, \u201cGo Outside.\u201d The video was inspired by \u2013 or was an extension of \u2013 the sampling of the so-called Jonestown death tape which appears at the beginning of the track. It goes into the life of Peoples Temple itself, presenting film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":29487,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29275"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134637,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29275\/revisions\/134637"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}