 " Turn Up the Music " is an uptempo electronic dance , and house song , which last for a duration of three minutes and forty @-@ nine seconds . Instrumentation is provided by pulsating beats , synthesizers and percussion . Rap @-@ Up described the production as " synth @-@ heavy " . The song opens with Brown singing " Turn up the music cause the sun just came up / Turn up the music if they try to turn us down / Turn up the music cause I 'm trying to hear the speakers blow / Turn up the music , fill your cup and drink it down " . It is then followed by repeated chants of " If you 're sexy and you know it put your hands up in the air " . Jason Lipshutz of Billboard noted that the chanting was a reference to LMFAO 's " Sexy and I Know It " ( 2011 ) . Andy Kellman of Allmusic likened the song to Baltimora 's " Tarzan Boy " ( 1985 ) . 
