{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2026}} {{Infobox song | name = Sotto casa | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Max Gazzè | album = Sotto casa | B-side = | released = 2013 | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Pop | length = | label = Virgin Music | writer = Francesco Gazzè, Max Gazzè | producer = | prev_title = Il drago che ti adora | prev_year = 2011 | next_title = I tuoi maledettissimi impegni | next_year = 2013 | misc = {{External music video|header=|{{YouTube|Ej0ME8xdiF8|"Sotto casa"}}|type=song}} }}
"'''Sotto casa'''" ('Outside your house') is a song by Max Gazzè, the leading single from his 2013 album with the same name.
== Overview == Max Gazzè and his brother composed the song after an encounter with two Jehovah's Witnesses who visited them while they were writing music; after listening to them, the brothers imagined what might happen to such visitors if they were consistently rejected and forced to address a closed door.<ref name=nsb>{{cite news |last1=D'Amore |first1=Eleonora |title=Max Gazzè: “Con ‘Sotto casa’ porto la mia spiritualità a Sanremo 2013” |url=https://music.fanpage.it/max-gazze-con-sotto-casa-porto-la-mia-spiritualita-a-sanremo-2013/ |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=Fanpage.it |date=14 February 2013 |language=it}}</ref> Lyrics serve as a metaphor about dialogue barriers between different faiths as well as between secular and religious viewpoints, and are intended as an invitation to dialogue and mutual listening among different sides..<ref name="nsb" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Gazzè, un successo sotto casa |url=https://www.famigliacristiana.it/attualita/gazze-un-successo-sotto-casa-bop16ow5 |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=Famiglia Cristiana |date=18 April 2013 |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Brinchi Giusti |first1=Fabio |title=Nel Paese dei litigi trionfa la canzone del dialogo |url=https://www.linkiesta.it/blog/2013/04/nel-paese-dei-litigi-trionfa-la-canzone-del-dialogo/ |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=Linkiesta |date=14 April 2013 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
The song entered the 63rd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, where it ranked seventh.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Manca |first1=Mario |title=Tutti i vincitori mancati del Festival di Sanremo |url=https://www.vanityfair.it/gallery/tutti-i-vincitori-mancati-del-festival-di-sanremo |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=Vanity Fair Italia |date=8 February 2022 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
The music video of the song was inspired by Emir Kusturica's films, and features Gazzè alongside his son Samuel wandering Rome's suburban streets in a 1960s Fiat 600 Multipla, knocking at a door until an old man lets them in, and then delivering a hypnotic sermon that wins over the man's family.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tutti sotto casa di Max Gazzè |url=https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/spettacolo/articoli/1085111/tutti-sotto-casa-di-max-gazze.shtml |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=TgCom24 |date=9 March 2013 |language=it-IT}}</ref> ==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Chart ! Peak<br />position |- | Italy (FIMI)<ref>{{cite web |title=Il solito sesso |url=https://www.fimi.it/top-of-the-music/music/?title=Sotto%20Casa |website=FIMI |access-date=1 March 2026 |language=it-IT}}</ref> |align="center"|5 |- | Italy Airplay (Nielsen Music Control)<ref>{{cite news |title=Classifiche, Nielsen Music: al primo posto i Jutty Ranx, bene i Bastille |url=https://www.rockol.it/news-486500/classifiche-nielsen-music-al-primo-posto-i-jutty-ranx-bene-i-bastille |access-date=1 March 2026 |work=Rockol |date=5 April 2013 |language=it}}</ref> |align="center"|2 |}
==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|type=single|award=Platinum|relyear=2024|certyear=2023|accessdate=2 November 2025|number=2|id=2811|note=Sales from 2009}} {{Certification Table Bottom|streaming=true|nosales=true|noshipments=true}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}} Category:Italian pop songs Category:2013 singles Category:2013 songs Category:Sanremo Music Festival songs of 2013 Category:Max Gazzè songs