Assuming the song key to.be Am, such a change (upon the Degree IV of the Key scale) often has the ability to enhance a new set of voices accounting for the, either inadvertently or not, voice-leading process implicit within the harmonic framework (this is not a remarkably elementary issue but anyway...): for instance, by such a change the relevant voice could be changed from, say, an inner voice (tenor, etc) onto the bass, etc. Greetings