John Summit Talks New Album, Shows You His Routine & More in a Day in His Life | Billboard Cover

Billboard cover star John Summit takes you through a day in his life in Miami where he shares what he’s working on for his next album, who he would love to collaborate with, performing at the Sphere, how EDM music from the US has gone international and more!

John Summit:

I remember like I was just at first, just making music to impress my girlfriend at the time, because she liked all these DJs. I’m like, okay I do this. I feel I could lose my job any day. So the second I let off the gas, someone else is gonna steam right ahead.

Katie Bain:

Tell me what you were absorbing in terms of electronic music, pop music, movies, media that you know kind of fed into what you’re doing now, like what was particularly inspiring to you?

I mean, I think the other pop stars this year were really inspiring, like, I think the whole movement Charli XCX had with ‘BRAT’ was just incredible, because the music was amazing. It was very electronic focused, but then there’s a cultural movement as well, which I think is every kind of artist’s dream, right? And then from there, just watching like movies I needed to catch up on like, I just rewatched, like ‘La La Land,’ for example, the guy who scores those movies. He does it with Damien Chazelle, this guy named Justin Hurwitz, and he’s such an incredible, incredible score that super inspires me. And then I was looking into it, and like Ryan Gosling learned how to play the jazz piano within three months from nothing for that movie. And it just shows you that you don’t even need to be particularly knowledgeable or skilled at any instrument, and you can just learn it. I just rewatched ‘Whiplash,’ for example, I bought a drum kit the next day. 

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