FIRST TIME HEARING | Diana Ankudinova (Диана Анкудинова) | Everything In Your Hands (Всё в твоих руках) #musicreaction

Hi, I'm Rad. I'm John. Okay, so we're up to episode three from Masked Singer in Mercer with Diana Ankudinova. This time, it's another Russian song. I'm not going to try and butcher it because I forgot to look up how to pronounce it. Let's see. Try and get the original artist's name. Where have I got it written? Anzalika? That's probably wrong. Varum? That bit's probably right. Sounds good to me. She was the original artist, and the original music video is actually her doing a duet with another singer called Leonid Bogatin. Probably got that wrong, too. The song translates to All In Your Hands, or alternatively, if you Google Everything In Your Hands. Pick your poison, I guess, as far as translation programs work. According to AI, it is a Russian pop song about empowerment, love, and taking control of your destiny, emphasizing that a romantic connection and future happiness depend on taking that brave first step. With themes of trust, overcoming hesitation, and deep emotional intimacy. Released in February of 2013. Wow, wow. 2013, that's a lot longer than you think. Honestly, the part that amused me most about that was the fact that it was written as one great big run-on sentence by Google's AI, and then it tagged on. Released in February of 2013 on the end of it. That's right. I could have a run-on sentence about a paragraph long at the time. Well, yes. So can I. I was just mentally amused at the way that the AI thing composed it, and then threw in the, it was released in 2013, just as kind of like an afterthought. It's sort of like, come on, AI, do better. Do better. Do better. All right. Before we check it out, make sure you hit that like and subscribe. Check out the description down below. You're going to find, no, yes, all our links, information, stuff down there. I'm forgetting which bit goes where. Okay. Cool. It's for YouTube? That, to me, sounds nothing like last week's. I know. I don't actually dig that. And it sounds nothing like the way you normally hear it. I know. I'm guessing as well, because, yeah. I would never know that was her if we didn't know it was her. We cheated. We looked at the answer sheet. But yeah, it's, to be able to disguise your voice, sing, I guess, counter-intuitively to the way you naturally sing, and still be able to sing that well. Yeah. It's like, really? Yeah. That's just, it's sort of a talent, I guess. For YouTube. Also, I forgot to apologize about the planes at the beginning of the video. It's for some obscure reason, this network doesn't like anybody using the master singer. Videos on YouTube. So we have to put a watermark, block it. We have to block it. We either block it, or no one on the face of the earth can see it. Yeah. They don't care about the audio, but the video. Anyway. Which I don't want to see, it's kind of fun to see it. Anyway. You can. At least I can. I don't think the shorts are blocked, are they? Yeah, the shorts have to be watermarked. This is the only occasion that we've had to watermark shorts. She also doesn't dance like herself, either. How I traditionally think of her dancing. I think I commented the same thing when she more recently was the Firebird. The occasions you've seen her dancing in her music videos, and a couple of live videos and stuff on stage. She doesn't... You know, it's not... She's not typically dancing in a way, typically, that I've seen her. Yeah, I couldn't tell you on that part. I don't know if I just don't pay attention, or I just... Yeah. But, you know... You don't have to look at it to pay attention to it. You know, with this character, is it because... Obviously, you have the fans, so it's more... You know, of a fan dance. Yeah. But still, it's kind of... It is... It's another sort of distraction of... Who she is. Yeah. Who she is, because it's kind of like... Well, who do we know who moves like that on stage? She's just so talented. It's just... I mean... I don't know. I lose... I don't know what else to say. It's like... Yeah. Yeah, it's just... Yeah, it's... I mean, yeah, if she continued... If she continued performing in the vein that she did at the beginning of the season, it is... It's kind of like... I don't think there's any way they ever would have managed to figure out who on earth it was. But I think I read in the comments on one of the videos that... That's kind of like around about six episodes or so, the producers actually asked her to start being a bit more like yourself, because you're making it too hard, kind of thing. Being like, well... Or then again, it could also boil down to, we've already decided who's going to win, so... I think that's how a lot of shows are, so... Yeah. The producers get... You're the winner. Stuck in their head, and it's kind of like, that's the end of the story. But still, yeah, it's fun entertainment, let's be honest. Especially with a show like this, it's just... It's a bit of silly fun entertainment, because it's kind of like, there's no real... Oh my goodness. You won the Masked Singer? I know, I'd be shocked if I was watching that, I didn't know who it was, I didn't know who it was. I'd be like, wait, what? Yeah. Really? And there's a sort of flaw, it's like... I don't know, for some reason, she manages to get so much emotion and stuff out of the performance of a costume that does have a completely static mask on it. Because she puts so much emotion in her songs anyway, but you still seem to get it, even just... Yeah, through how the character behaves and moves on stage, it's kind of like, yeah, there's so much emotion coming through the performance that it's kind of like... Yeah, it's a static-faced mask, it's like, how do you manage to... Yeah, right. Well, we're going to continue hitting up the rest from this series, and obviously more way after. 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