[3][4] It sempled two Italian songs: "Futura" by Lucio Dalla and "Ho visto un re" by Dario Fo, Paolo Ciarchi and Enzo Jannacci.

I never gave any of the other songs a chance to be the track that would anticipate the album, and when we were in the studio with Rick Rubin we shared the same thought: "Oh, Vita!"

would be the opening track of the album, also because it is the perfect meeting point of mine with this great producer who has been so important in my life before I could even think of one day making a whole record with him.

[8] Gabriele Antonucci of Panorama wrote that Jovanotti "returned to his beloved rap, albeit in an unprecedented key", finding that Rubin's production "can be heard in the cleanliness of the sounds and the few instruments".

[10] The video was filmed in the artist's childhood neighborhood of Porta Cavalleggeri and native home in Rome and Vatican City.