Rada Manojlovic: I did not agree to fight any bulls
The singer performed in Dicmo near Split at an event whose daytime programme was a bullfight, and after a wave of jokes online she explained that she and Goga Sekulic only sing in the evening.
Rada Manojlovic sang in Dicmo near Split on August 1, 2026, at an event whose daytime programme was a bullfight. By the next morning social media had decided she was stepping into the ring herself, so she spelled out what had actually been booked.
The poster billed her and Goga Sekulic as the headline acts of the evening. The same sheet also advertised the bull fights. That was enough to set the comments off.
They ran in two directions. Some backed “Rada’s bulls”, others put their money on “Goga’s team”. The singer ended up settling it herself.
She spoke while on the Montenegrin coast:
Look, the deal is that the two of us sing, there is still no deal for us to fight bulls (laughs). I would not agree to that. We perform in the evening, that is the music programme, and the bull fights are during the day
The answer came with a laugh, but it was precise enough to close the subject. A gig was a gig, nothing beyond that.
What actually happened in Dicmo?
The programme was split by the clock. Several bull fights were held in the arena during the day, including the main bout for the Croatian championship, the competitive centrepiece of the event. The music came later, in the evening, as a separate block.
The two halves shared a place and a date, but not a time slot. Anyone who came for the bulls watched the bulls. Anyone who stayed until dark heard the singers. The poster squeezed both halves onto one sheet, and that is where the confusion started.
Why the joke landed
Because a Serbian singer’s name and a bullfighting billing almost never sit side by side. A pop poster normally advertises a stage, a microphone and a start time. This one advertised an arena as well, so people online read it literally and turned it into a meme.
Neither Manojlovic nor Sekulic had anything to do with the daytime schedule. They were, however, the most recognisable faces on the announcement, so the jokes landed on them. When a poster does its job it pulls in an audience and a punchline at once, and it is the performer who ends up explaining the difference, not the promoter.
A summer that never sees the sun
In the same conversation the singer talked about the pace. She described the summer season as maddening and said she never sees the sun because she works so much. It sounded like a complaint, but in practice it is a description of a calendar: dates follow one another and the rest is whatever fits between two of them.
The statement itself was made on the road, on the Montenegrin coast, between commitments. That is the standard picture of August on the regional scene, when bookings run from the Adriatic to the interior and performers cross between them on the same day.
Who was booked, and how the mix-up started
What is known about the event in Dicmo:
- an evening music programme with Rada Manojlovic and Goga Sekulic billed as the night’s headliners
- bull fights during the day, including the main bout for the Croatian championship
- a poster that announced both halves of the programme together
- online reactions that jokingly lined the singers up with the bulls
Serbian performers playing coastal events in Croatia is not new, and August dates like these are filled months in advance. What was new is that a single poster combined two things that are never advertised together, and that the explanation was then demanded from the performers rather than from whoever designed the poster.
The Dicmo event stays on its calendar, and the singers stay on theirs. The next time a stage and an arena share one announcement, the sequence will probably repeat: the joke first, the denial second.
