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No. In any unstressed syllable consisting of a vowel and a "й", the vowel may be reduced, but the "й" can normally be heard quite clearly, regardless of whether the syllable is stressed or...

More or less. They sort of drawl it out in the song, as the tune requires, but it is fairly close to what you hear in normal speach, although in rapid speach, this "a" in the "ai" is not quite as...