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"Don't Stop the Music" is a dance-pop song that features a wide variety of rhythmic devices used mainly in hip hop music. Its instrumentation includes a bass drum that provides every single beat as Rihanna intersperses the melody. From the very beginning, the song utilizes syncopation and samples many different rhythms, which are layered on top of each other. The line, "Mama-say, mama-sa, ma-ma-ko-ssa", was sampled from Michael Jackson's 1983 post-disco song "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" to create a "pulsating musical structure".