[2] Under the pressure of professional obligations, sudden fame, and media scandal that revealed his LSD usage, Vojičić left Bijelo Dugme after only a year, and Divlje Jagode's Islamović got approached once again about joining.

Doubting Divlje Jagode's international prospects, 29-year-old Islamović decided to take the offer this time, leaving Wild Strawberries and returning to Yugoslavia to join Bijelo Dugme.

[2] Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo thus became the first Bijelo Dugme release since 1977 live album Koncert kod Hajdučke česme to feature Ristovski as an official member.

[2] Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo features similar Balkan folk-infused pop rock sound as Bijelo Dugme, and was similarly inspired by Yugoslavism within communist and socialist patriotic framework, containing numerous references to the Communist League (SKJ)-defined Yugoslav unity as well as the lyrics on the inner sleeve printed in both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.

To that end, he and the band's manager Raka Marić [sr] approached three such individuals who had at that point been effectively proscribed from public discourse in Yugoslavia for over a decade: Bregović's idea was to have Vukov sing the ballad "Ružica si bila, sada više nisi" ("You Were Once a Little Rose").

Reaching out to surviving individuals of that ilk was done through Duga journalist and writer Milomir Marić who had been known to keep contact with many of them as part of the preparatory work for his upcoming book Deca komunizma [sr] (Children of Communism).

[8] Expressing his dislike of the band's new album, Kremer looked into the camera and addressed Bregović directly: As a man who adores records with an almost fetishist passion, I hate what I'm about to say and do, but I feel compelled to [still go ahead with it] as means of posing a question.

[9][10] A visibly angry Bregović reacted by cursing under his breath and launching into an insult-laden tirade directed at Kramer: It's hard, even for a fool, to harbour ambitions of being liked by everyone, especially by these kinds of fat little pigs with sideburns who probably still masturbate on a regular basis in their forties.

[11] Alongside Plavi Orkestar's Smrt fašizmu!, Merlin's Teško meni sa tobom (a još teže bez tebe), and Hari Mata Hari's Ne bi te odbranila ni cijela Jugoslavija [bs] Pljuni i zapjevaj, moja Jugoslavijo has occasionally been categorized as part of New Partisans, a mid-1980s collection of albums by Sarajevo-based bands, featuring sound centered on the Balkan folk-inspired pop rock music as well as containing either direct lyrical/visual references or allusions to Yugoslavism within communist and socialist patriotic framework.

[12] In addition to its successful commercial performance, over the decades since its release, Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo made a number of Yugoslav pop-rock all-time lists in different categories.

In 2016, looking back on Goran Bregović's overall career and specifically Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo within it, Politika columnist Aleksandar Apostolovski wistfully opined that "due to seeing Yugoslavia as an inseparable part of his being, Bregović was convinced his own Partisan aesthetic dressed up in rock'n'roll arrangements, with even the Communist International's enforcer Svetozar Vukmanović Tempo taking part on the microphone, would stop the country's disintegration".

[14] Almost 40 years after its release, the album's title song "Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo"'s Yugoslavist message aroused controversy in Croatia in August 2024 during Bijelo Dugme's 50th anniversary reunion tour.

[15][16] Following the band's concert outside of Split's Porat club on 31 August 2024 in front of 10 to 15 thousand fans—due to taking issue with the band singer Alen Islamović's act of singing the "Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo" song while the flag of Yugoslavia was simultaneously being shown on the LED display behind him—a Zagreb-based veterans' organization, Defenders of Vukovar (Udruga zagrebački dragovoljci branitelji Vukovara), filed a criminal investigation request with Croatia's State Attorney's Office.

[16][21][22] In the wake of the August 2024 "Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo" controversy in Croatia during which he claimed to be receiving "nationalist and chauvinistic online threats",[23] different outlets reached out for comment to Alen Islamović who, after deflecting and deferring to bandleader Goran Bregović via stating "I'm just a worker who's singing in the Bijelo Dugme company owned by Mr. Bregović" eventually briefly stated his opinion that "Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo" is a "rock parody of the old times".

[23] Hit tracks off Pljuni i zapjevaj moja Jugoslavijo—primarily "Ružica si bila" and "A i ti me iznevjeri"—saw a number of covers, mostly by performers from the newly-established, post-Yugoslav countries.