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Our adorkable opera singer reacts to Slayer. This should be interesting.

April 14, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Elizabeth Zharoff, the oh-so-sheltered young opera singer is making up for lost time by making nice money with her reaction video series under the name The Charismatic Voice, What will she make of

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Our sweet opera singer finally discovers Garbage

April 13, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Elizabeth Zharoff (aka The Charismatic Voice) is a trained opera singer who makes extra money on the side (1.89 million subscribers) by reacting to rock songs she’s never heard before. This time, it’s

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Let’s check in with our adorkable opera singer to see what she’s discovered this week

March 30, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

The story thus far: Elizabeth Zharoff spent way too much time training to be an opera singer when she was young so she missed all the rock music we take for granted. The

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Let’s hear again from our adorably naive opera singer, this time about Bush

March 24, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

I haven’t posted any reaction videos by Elizabeth Zharoff lately, so let’s fix that. In case you don’t know, she’s a professionally trained opera singer who was so deep into opera when she

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Our lovely and naive opera singer gets deeper into Soundgarden and “Black Hole Sun”

March 5, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Elizabeth Zharoff is adorable. So much of her youth was spent studying opera that she missed out on the music everyone else was listening to. On the positive side, she has this nice

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Our wonderfully naive opera singer just found out about “Back in Black” by AC/DC

February 16, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Elizabeth Zharoff spent so many years studying how to be an opera singer that she never got to grow up with the music the rest of us did. The good news is that

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Our adorkable opera singer discovers “Lightning Crashes” by Live

January 26, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Elzabeth Zharoff’s reaction videos–posted under the name The Charismatic Voice–have attracted nearly two million subscribers. Her whole thing is recording the moments she discovers songs we all know for the first time. That’s

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What is our adorably naive opera singer reacting to this week?

January 12, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

I like to check in on Elizabeth Zharoff and her Charismatic Voice channel at least once a week to hear about her latest discovery. She’s just learning about a ton of songs the

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Our naive opera singer reacts to “Sharp Dressed Man” by ZZ Top

January 4, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

If you’re new to these posts, Elizabeth Zharoff is a trained opera singer who has nearly two million people subscribing to her YouTube channel to watch her react to songs she’s never heard

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Our adorkably naive opera singer investigates the concept of more cowbell.

December 22, 2024 Alan Cross 1 Comment 0 min read

If I had to suggest a song to which Elizabeth Zharoff could react, it might be “Don’t Fear the Reaper” from Blue Oyster Cult. Our opera singer–who spent all her youth studying classical

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Time for our weekly check on our wonderfully naive opera singer and her reaction videos. This time, it’s a real doozy.

December 8, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

It’s been estimated that every hour somewhere in the world, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” is played on the radio. It’s ubiquitous, inescapable. Yet Elizabath Zharoff was apparently too busy training to be an opera

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