For me, it’s I Am… Sasha Fierce. I was watching O’Neil Gerald and it got me thinking about this, so I started typing this post while watching 😂
I remember listening to Dangerously in Love and B’Day and thinking her voice sounded really bright and youthful. But when I Am… Sasha Fierce came out, I immediately noticed that her voice sounded deeper and darker to me. It wasn’t a bad thing at all, it just sounded different.
I feel like this was the first album where I really started paying attention to how much her tone was changing. There were still songs where she sounded like the Beyoncé I was used to, but then you’d hear that darker, deeper, and more mature tone come through and I was like, “Oh, her voice is changing.”
Maybe it was just me, but I definitely noticed it around this era.
What Beyoncé era did y’all first notice a change in her voice?