by runnersdialzero » 3/12/2010, 1:37 am
It's absolutely natural for someone's voice to change over time - no reason to fault anyone. It's natural with age, it's natural with the shifting climate of a person's life (i.e. being married with children now), and it's natural as your tastes and influences are changed and re-arranged over time. Other styles and tones appeal to you more at different times in your life.
The vibrato in his voice on the falsetto of the recently posted "Are You Sad?" is really, really nice - pretty similar to the sort of stuff he was doing back then. I don't know if he's necessarily "lost" anything, just changed in a lot of ways. "Wipe That Smile Off Your Face", the end, is another good, somewhat recent example. Still damn good - I know no one was saying he wasn't, but still.