This and (la dolce vita edition)

The audio anchoring this trend is Fausto Papetti's saxophone rendition of "La Dolce Vita," a theme composed by Nino Rota for Federico Fellini's landmark 1960 Italian film of the same name, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes that year. Papetti (1923 to 1999) was an Italian alto saxophonist who released his cover on the album "Sax alto e ritmi - 1a Raccolta" in 1960, and whose loungy instrumental interpretations of mid-century popular melodies became a recurring source for nostalgic aesthetic content on TikTok. The "This and..." caption format is a pre-existing TikTok convention for aspirational montage clips; the "la dolce vita edition" variant applies it to warm, sun-saturated b-roll evoking an idealized Italian summer, drawing on the cultural shorthand of Fellini's film title. No single originating creator for this specific audio-format pairing has been documented in public sources.