Karleusa: Some Singers Fear Daylight Without Photoshop
In her first Pink TV interview in ten years, Jelena Karleusa said fellow singers are afraid to be seen in daylight without photoshop, and told one that she cannot move from Grand to Pink.
- Jelena Karleusa appeared on Boza Dobrisa's show on Pink TV, their first joint interview in ten years.
- She said fellow singers are afraid to be seen outdoors in daylight without photoshop.
- She told one colleague she cannot move from Grand to Pink.
- She recently performed her new ballad "Sad je sve okej" in Budva.
After ten years, Jelena Karleusa returned to a Pink TV camera and made clear at once that she had not come to mince words. On Boza Dobrisa’s show, sitting across from a host she had not shared a frame with for years, the singer produced a headline within minutes that carried across every portal by morning.
The occasion was a pleasant one, a new ballad and a summer concert in Budva. But Karleusa rarely stays on safe ground. Instead of talking only about the song, she turned toward her colleagues on the scene and delivered a line that is hard to read as a compliment.
The message to colleagues that lit up social media
“Singers are afraid to be seen outdoors in daylight without photoshop,” Karleusa said on the show. The sentence is short, but everyone in the industry knows whom it is aimed at. No names, no hedging, exactly the way she likes to frame things.
She did not stop there. When the conversation drifted to who is and is not allowed to move from one television station to another, she added the line that echoed almost as loudly. “One woman cannot move from Grand to Pink. Sorry,” she said, leaving the audience to fill in the blank themselves.
For someone who has been in the public eye for two and a half decades, this is a classic Karleusa move. She says enough for everyone to understand, and too little to have to prove anything. Comments piled up within an hour, and the guessing game over who she meant is still going.
Is this the announcement of a big comeback?
The very fact that she agreed to sit down with Boza Dobrisa says something. Ten years is a long time for two people from the scene to go without a word on camera, so for many the interview itself is bigger news than the remark. The Budva show and the new ballad “Sad je sve okej” look like the opening of a busier season, and Karleusa has always used timing better than most.
She says she approached the song emotionally. “I cried a lot of tears over this song,” she admitted, a rare turn toward a softer tone after all the sharp lines. That contrast, a ballad on one side and jabs on the other, is exactly why she stays at the center of attention even as far younger performers try to take over the scene.
What remains open is whether this was a single headline-making interview or the announcement of a broader return to the small screen. Karleusa has long known that people talk loudest about the person who stays quiet just long enough, so every new appearance now carries added weight.
So what do you think, did Karleusa burn her colleagues with these words, or did she simply say out loud what the industry has been whispering for years?
