John Summit

One Liner: EDM
Wikipedia Genre: EDM, house, techno, tech house
Home: Naperville, Illinois

Poster Position: Headliner!
Day: Sunday
Both Weekends.

T-Mobile Stage at 8:15 (and he only plays until 9:25?!?).

Thoughts:  I am grateful for his existence, because my girls went from being excited about Doja Cat to an acceptance that another DJ set was going to be good enough for them to have fun on Sunday night.  Previously, they had said that they would choose Doja, just because there were already too many DJ sets this year and they didn't need to see this one.  Which was somewhat validating for me, in that I keep saying that I can't tell the difference between this junk or why people would be excited for one over the other, and at least with a few teenage girls, they seem to think the same way.  I know you will be shocked to find out that this guy plays generic dance beats with a lady singing over the top.

John Walter Schuster was called the hottest name in dance music by Rolling Stone in 2024.  I don't know why, unless his agent gave Rolling Stone some money.  He attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.  he started DJing and playing local venues, and then started at Ernst & Young after college, before leaving to chase his dream of making more beeps and boops.  Such a great BRO background - frat guy, investment banker, EDM DJ.  The dream for every bro wearing long basketball shorts, a backwards ballcap, and a single gold chain.

His original singles appear to have been relatively ignored, with only 155k streams for his 2017 debut single, and under 40k streams for each song on his first EP in 2018.  His first single with any appreciable number of streams was a 2020 single called "Deep End."  With 56.1 million streams.  But his 2023 single "Where You Are" was the bigger breakthrough, and still his top streamer with 244.5 million spins.

There are those vacuous lyrics.  "do you dream alone under the moon?" "mixed emotions hearts still open though we're far apart."  Deep, bro.  I bet he wrote those while running spreadsheets at E&Y.  Completely generic.  He finally released an album in 2024 - Comfort in Chaos - which included that song up above and another larger track with that same singer (HAYLA).  I'll go with a different one for his other song for you to hear, just because it has a different singer.  This is "Go Back," featuring Julia Church, with 95.1 million streams.

If you love hearing someone sing "go back" over and over, then this is the generic jam for you!  Although, I have to show you this - YouTube search brought up imagery from his show at the Sphere in Vegas.  If anyone could make the Sphere seem jenky, it is apparently this dude.

The people in the crowd, filming him as he just stands at his little standup desk aren't even dancing.  Why are they even there?  What a weird thing to see.  At about 2:25, you can see a person in dancing down to the right near the lights, but otherwise it is like the whole crowd is just stunned and staring.

Definitely not my thing.  If it is yours, may you find so much joy in blankly staring at him as he twirls knobs and slides switches and the ladies sing pablum into your ears.