"La dolce vita" peaked at number one on the Italian FIMI Singles Chart and was certified platinum both in Italy and Switzerland after its release.

[3] The track, which marked the second collaboration between Fedez and Tananai after "Le madri degli altri", and the first collaboration with Mara Sattei,[4] was recorded three days before Fedez's pancreatic cancer removal operation:[5] Three days before the operation to remove my pancreas I decided to go into the studio to record the vocals for this song I was working on before my life changed so abruptly, I think I did it a bit to distract myself from everything that was happening to me.

[...] The birth of this song made me realise how important music is in my life, how it is almost a vital need, the deepest part of me, and I want to dedicate it to my wife, my beautiful children and all the people who worked on it.The song musically is twist, inspired by Paul Anka's "Diana" and "Twist and Shout" by The Beatles, with a rapping part.

[8] Less enthusiastic was the review by All Music Italia, assigning a score of 6.5/10, explaining that it was "made precisely to lull us through the hot summer" and noting that although the sounds are a homage to the past, the lyrics feature "a few more daring and relatively modern passages" without, however, finding it up to the standard of the 2021 single "Mille".

[9] The music video for the song was directed by Olmo Parenti, and features Italian influencer Alessia Lanza.