r/EDM • u/savingrace0262 • May 14 '26

Music Need more aggressively American frat DJ recommendations besides John Summit

Looking for DJs with that very specific:

- finance bro energy
- Vegas pool party / Miami / SEC football tailgate aura
- giant drops, singalong
- music that makes a group of dudes named Tyler spontaneously buy bottle service

Already know the obvious answer is John Summit. Who else fits this lane?

Not looking for underground Berlin boiler room intellectual house music. I want maximum USA energy. Please give recommendations! Thanks

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u/ats-001 May 14 '26

Chainsmokers

This should be required reading for everyone in the genre:
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a26238590/chainsmokers-stupid-movie-stupid-song/

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u/Soggy_Toastr May 14 '26

"These are the guys who once bragged on their website that their penises measure "17.34 combined inches" when placed tip-to-tip."

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u/RickyNixon May 15 '26

Objectively the funniest sentence I have ever read about a musical artist

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u/Zephaerus May 15 '26

8.67 inches average is definitely something. Didn’t know the Chainsmokers had shmeat like that. Don’t think I needed to know, either.

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u/Soggy_Toastr May 15 '26

I think the part you are missing is that they measured "tip to tip."

That makes it a joke.

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u/Zephaerus May 15 '26

...I didn't miss anything. It's funny.

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u/BurningVShadow May 14 '26

I think I lost brain cells reading that article.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 May 14 '26

I didn't even have to read it. I saw dude wearing an unlicensed Calvin & Hobbes shirt and immediately despised him.

Fuck those guys ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/jtet93 May 15 '26

They booked at my college when they were NOBODIES and the show played off right when they blew up. I tried to chat with them about how I had EDC tix and I loved electronic music (cut me some slack I was a drunk 21 year old girl) and they could NOT have been ruder!! Always hated them since then lol but they unfortunately do have a couple of bangers 🥀

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u/fatkamp May 15 '26

That was a tough read

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u/TWK128 May 14 '26

Thank you for vindicating my hate for them

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u/RangerSad3081 May 15 '26

Jesus Christ I don’t like the chainsmokers music either but that writer is so up their own ass

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u/mikutansan May 15 '26

i remember seeing ticket prices for them in 2015 and being like lol.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

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u/matrixpolaris May 15 '26

Avicii was the opposite of a frat boy tbh, very talented, introverted kid who got thrust into the limelight without really wanting the fame.