Marija Serifovic Posts Texts: 'That's Grandma for You'

Marija Serifovic posted a screenshot on her Instagram profile today, showing a text exchange with her mother, singer Verica Serifovic. The trigger was a set of photos of her son riding a small boat. The family has been cruising the Adriatic for a while now, and almost every post from this vacation has come from there.

The singer has never hidden how much her mother helps her with the child. This time she showed what that help sounds like once it is boiled down to text messages.

Verica’s reaction came first, the moment she saw the photos:

My life, I’m going to kill you all! Blowinggg on his little a*s!

Marija wrote back with two words, “E, kipak.” Her mother closed out the conversation with a single word: “Clear.” Marija captioned the whole screenshot with “That’s grandma for you.”

The Messages Weren’t Leaked, She Posted Them Herself

Nothing here leaked from anywhere else. Marija posted the screenshot herself, on her own account, and captioned it herself. There is no conflict in the exchange either: Verica’s line is a grandmother’s threat made in jest, aimed at both her daughter and her grandson, and it reads that way alongside the photos that set it off.

The whole exchange fits into three messages. None of them runs longer than five words.

What Has Verica Said About Her Grandson Before?

This is not the first time Verica Serifovic has spoken publicly about her grandson. She once described his first months like this:

I have my little chick now and I couldn’t care less about anything else. I used to take him out of his crib to sleep with me. In the morning, when he opens his eyes, when he looks at me, then smiles at me. Oh God, I want to die of happiness. It’s not that we listen to music together, it’s that we sing, you should see him when I put on a clarinet player for him, he listens, and before the song even ends he starts going “na na.” I guarantee he has perfect pitch.

The bond she described back then shows up in this exchange too. The reply comes before the photos can even be properly commented on, and the sentence does not end with a period but with five letter e’s stretched onto the end of a word.

A Summer at Sea

The cruise has been going on for weeks now and has not been without its share of trouble. On her Youtube channel, Marija posted footage of rough seas, with things flying across the deck as the boat sails into a storm. Photos from the beach had already surfaced earlier from the same trip.

In the exchange itself, even Marija ends up pushed to the background. Her mother answers as though someone else, not Marija, had sent the photos, so the joking threat is aimed at both of them. All Marija adds to that is two words, and even those respond to the tone, not the content.

Posts like this are as much a part of her public persona as her concerts are. We saw the same pattern at her show in Vranje, which we covered earlier, when she called the crowd closer to the stage with the words “Come on, folks, come up front.” A personal tone is not an exception to the job for her, it is part of the job, which is why a text exchange with her mother ends up on the profile her audience follows instead of buried in her phone’s archive.

That is also why a post like this lasts longer than a single evening. There is no announcement, no press material, no photographer. There is a screenshot and three messages, and everyone watching fills in the rest themselves.

“That’s grandma for you” is the last line of the post and, judging by the three messages above it, the most accurate one.