The song was written by Alberto Bianco, Francesco Roccati, Massimiliano Dagani and Mario Marco Gianclaudio Fracchiolla, and produced by Big Fish and Rhade.

[4][5] At the Sanremo festival press conference, Giorgia described the meaning of the song, as the untethering of her memory of former partner Alex Baroni, who died in 2002:[6][7]"The text starts off straight.

The "whores" refers not only to the sexual sphere indeed but to women who are not accepted because they are too free"During the conference, the singer also spoke about her decision to return to the Festival after 22 years:[8][9]"I thought that I had already given, that I had done mine and I was no longer thinking about Sanremo: I considered it a closed subject and after so many participations I didn't feel like it.

Andrea Laffranchi of Corriere della Sera assigned a rating of 6.5 out of 10 to the single, writing that it recounts "the good memories of a story that ended, also, because of words spoken wrongly," finding it musically from the "classic 90s soul.

"[12] Rolling Stone Italia, concerning the songs presented during the second night of the Sanremo Festival, gave it a score of 5.5 out of 10;[16] according to the site's reviewer Filippo Ferrari, "Parole dette male" would be perfect for "the soundtrack of a comedy in which the protagonists end up in bed after a romantic dinner" but that "many would call it elegant.

"[13] Andrea Conti of Il Fatto Quotidiano believed that the song brings "a new Giorgia," through a "soulful sonority that immediately conquers in the aside," and a lyric that narrates with "a look at the future and the present, the transformation of melancholy into something constructive.