The song also appears in the film Totally Killer and the video games Dance Central 3 and Scarface: The World Is Yours.

By the early 1980s, the backlash against disco had driven dance music off mainstream radio stations in the United States.

Further, it was one of the first tracks to sync together a TR-808 and a Roland TB-303 bassline, famous in later years as the instrument responsible for creating acid house.

[11] "Let the Music Play" is a dance-pop and freestyle song with synthesizer and drum machine-produced rim shot percussion sounds and kick-drum/snare-drum interaction.

Interspersed throughout these scenes are shots of male and female dancers fashioned in dress shirts and bow ties warming up.

[16] Slant Magazine ranked it number 54 in its "100 Greatest Dance Songs" list in 2006, adding, "Alongside Madonna's 'Holiday', D.C.-born jazz vocalist Brenda Shannon Greene's 'Let the Music Play' helped redefine dance music in the anti-disco early-'80s, setting the stage for the troubled genre for the next decade.

[19] Rolling Stone ranked "Let the Music Play" number six in their list of "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time" in 2022.

These are the main formats and track listings of the single release of Mary Kiani's "Let the Music Play".