ok know this is the goofiest cliche trans masc shit ever BUT I SWEAR my singing voice already feels different after 1 week/2 shots
speaking as a singer who is very in tune with my Instrument, and that sings the same songs frequently, i can detect minor changes to how much effort it takes to sing certain notes in the same songs. i have no idea whether i sound any different but my voice feels like it does right after i wake up, with low notes easier and higher notes more difficult, only its been like that all day, not just in the morning
lol, lmao, turns out i was getting sick. covid rapid test is cookin, then off to urgent care once they open
womp womp. covid test is positive for the first time ever! so not going to urgent care, just calling my doc to hopefully get paxlovid
the voice changes i noticed 2 weeks ago before i started getting sick REMAIN and i am, while still covid pos, very much not sick anymore.
specifically, the solo I had this year in Pride chorus in the song "Power" by Joy Oladokun has a D3 that i have always struggled to get any volume on. I hit it fine in the solo audition, in a quiet room with no one else singing, but with the whole chorus on "Oohs" underneath me it was impossible to hear without amplification. I also usually have to do Things to how i hold the vowel (the word "is") in my mouth to get the note out and make the tone sound ok, one of the many things trained singers will learn how to do to sing notes in the top and bottom edges of their range.
so, ive sung this note, on these words, for literally 9 months, i have a very strong feel for the effort i expend singing it, and how it feels when that note on that vowell is vibrating my vocal folds. And for a whole 2 weeks now it has been different. When i sing that line of the song and sing that D3 it is noticibly easier, and in my mind at least it is louder, than it has been all the other many many times i sang it. Its still a note at the edge of my range but its closer to the beginning of that edge, whereas before it was right at the end. Previously I could barely croak out a passable C3 and that was really it for the bottom of my range. now i just checked and C3 is indeed easier and sounds much better, and I can get all the way to G2 before I totally croak out. i can also feel that my speaking voice is rumblier (not a technical term i dont think), though i doubt it sounds very different yet.
anyways idk its exciting, it may have been HRT after all!
