With the title song "Sitnije, Cile, sitnije", Lepa Brena participated in Jugovizija, the Yugoslav selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 1983, held on 16 March 1983 in the studio RTV Novi Sad in Novi Sad.

The winner was Danijel Popović with the song "Džuli", taking the fourth place at Eurovision, this repeating until then the greatest success of Yugoslav representatives in this type of competition.

After that, their first major tour of Yugoslavia followed, concerts with a record number of visitors, thanks to which, according to Lepa Brena herself, she deserves to be attributed the status of an "undisputed star".

[3] The same year, music group Griva made a heavy metal parody on Brena's Eurovision debacle.

With good marketing support, Griva was then placed at the very top of the Yugoslav rock scene.