[1] Despite the common belief that the bassline of the track was taken from "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" by McFadden & Whitehead,[3] D'Angiò claimed that he composed it independently along with the bassist Stefano Cerri.
[4] The song was later sampled in Madison Avenue's 1999 hit "Don't Call Me Baby".
In 1987, Italian singer Francesco Napoli recorded a cover of "Ma quale idea".
In 2024, Italian pop punk band Bnkr44 performed the song together with Pino D'Angiò at the cover night of the 74th Sanremo Music Festival.
The band released the song as a single on 1 March 2024, with the title "Ma che idea".