Published only seven months after her previous album Facile, and two months after her 70th birthday, this album is one of diverse sounds, styles, and authors. It includes fourteen tracks (plus one ghost track) written by numerous authors. In addition to the single "You Get Me", sung as a duet with English singer Seal, there are also songs "Pocte parole", a duet with Giorgia from the 2007 album Stonata and "Amore desperato", a duet with Lucio Dalla from the 2003 album Lucio.[3]
The album debuted at the third position of the Italian chart,[4] it lasted 35 weeks on the chart and became the 57th best-selling album of 2010.[5] The album also received a gold certification from FIMI for sales of 30,000 copies.[6]
According to Mariano Prunes from AllMusic, Caramella is less daring among Mina's recent releases, which included an opera album and some flirtations with alternative rock, but perhaps because of this it is the most impressive, since Mina is clearly on her own territory here–in the field of modern adult contemporary ballads in the Italian style.[7] Claudio Milano of OndaRock [it] stated that "You Get Me" is a wonderful modern adult pop music with perfect arrangements, but otherwise there is often a discord between vocals, songs and production.[8]
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