Brandy’s fourth album feels like an episode of her growing-pains TV show, Moesha: This week, our honey-voiced heroine sheds her girlishness, sexing up to become “a woman, a passionate woman.” Since Brandy recently divorced her producer-songwriter husband and became a single mother, the change is suitable, and she begins with a makeover. More than half the album is produced by Timbaland, who brings a sharp rhythmic punch, tickled with tablas and Indian flutes. Ages removed from her oversynthed old sound, the new juice brings out her angry side: She vents against men who have cheated, may have cheated or have merely “peeped” another girl. But deep down, fighting isn’t in Moesha’s character. In two Kanye West songs, she finds what it means to have a grown-up relationship: In “Talk About Our Love,” the irresistible first single, a couple learns to ignore painful rumors. Brandy even learns a lesson tidy enough for Moesha. As she tells West, it’s not the anger that matters, or the confusion — “All that matters is us.” Isn’t that sweet?

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