Cezar's show featured him dressed in a black sequin cloak standing between fluorescent lighting tubes, while dancers who emerged from a red material placed under him performed interpretive dance.

An accompanying music video was filmed by Faur in several Romanian locations including the Mamaia resort, Cliceni aerodrome and A2 motorway, and was uploaded to the singer's official YouTube channel on 1 May 2013.

[1] Musically, "It's My Life" has been described as an operatic pop and dubstep song,[2][3] with the latter genre being pronounced during the track's bridge which uses a sample bought from service Vengeance Audio.

[9] An editor of the aforementioned publication compared Cezar's prominent use of his falsetto register during the song to Scottish singer Jimmy Somerville and Australian musician Nick Cave;[9] another critic thought he sounded "feminine".

[11] Reviewers from Wiwibloggs had both positive and negative opinions of "It's My Life", praising Cezar's vocal delivery, as well as the song's catchiness, originality and dance nature, but criticizing its "generic" lyrics, genre crossover, and naming it "excruciating to listen to".

[15] An accompanying music video for "It's My Life" was uploaded to Cezar's official YouTube channel on 1 May 2013,[17] and was also exclusively premiered on the same date on TVR's Telejurnal segment.

Production was handled by Artside, Cat Music and Radu Hantig, while director of photography Alexandru Prepeliţă and make-up artist Ruxandra Mihaia Caranfil were also hired.

[18] In 2017, Macedonian singer Tijana Dapčević sang "It's My Life" and impersonated Cezar on Tvoje lice zvuči poznato, the Serbian version of interactive reality television franchise series Your Face Sounds Familiar.

[20] The Romanian Television (TVR) organized the Selecția Națională in order to select Romania's entrant for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest and opened the submission period for artists' and composers' entries between 14 January and 6 February 2013.

Towards the end of the performance, the singer and the lighting tubes rise 15 ft above the stage, with Cezar singing to a female background dancer wrapped in red material that is now at the same height as him.

[9] While comparing Cezar to Dracula, Geoff Tibballs, in his book The Good, the Bad and the Wurst: The 100 Craziest Moments from the Eurovision Song Contest, labelled the performance as "gloriously over-the-top".

[32] In the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest, Romania finished in 13th position, gathering a total of 65 points, including ten awarded by Moldova and Greece, seven by Malta and six by Norway, Iceland and Azerbaijan.