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A Different Me offers more dimensions, from lyrical and production standpoints, than Keyshia Cole's first two albums. Everything she recorded prior to this came from some degree of pain. Even though Just Like You's "Heaven Sent" was as beatific as anything else on the charts throughout 2008, its sentiment came more from a sense of relief in the wake of relationships gone sour, and "Let It Go" was made for the club but dealt with "roaming dogs." Overall, this is Cole's most free-spirited and adventurous album to date, and it is not without its stretches where reach exceeds grasp, like the jazzed-up, over-busy statement of purpose "Make Me Over" and the surprisingly saccharine "This Is Us." Yet there's a core of at least seven songs here that rate as highly as the best from the first two albums, and they're anything but reheated. "Don't Stop" beams with energy and pure, uncomplicated joy. "Oh-Oh, Yeah-Yea" is yearningly seductive, from Cole's pleas to its drawn-out tides of strings. In "Thought You Should Know," she doesn't drop her guard entirely while revealing more vulnerability than ever. "No Other" is the only track that sounds cut from the same cloth as Just Like You, and the resemblance is only in sound, with the equally urgent and sweepingly dramatic "Shoulda Let You Go" a definite reference, but the emotions between the two are starkly contrasting, with regret exchanged for aching desire. Cole pushes herself into new territory and becomes a more versatile songwriter and vocalist in convincing, frequently thrilling, fashion. Here's where the comparisons begin to fade away.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist - Ross Owen, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
E. Dean, ComposerLyricist - J. Jones, ComposerLyricist - I. Turner, ComposerLyricist - Tina Turner, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
J. Jackson, ComposerLyricist - A. Harr, ComposerLyricist - K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist - RON FAIR, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist - RON FAIR, ComposerLyricist - "THE RON" Feemster, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - Theron Feemster, Producer - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist - RON FAIR, Producer, Additional Producer - "THE RON" Feemster, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - J. Poyser, ComposerLyricist - Kwame, ComposerLyricist - A. Harris, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist - Amina Harris, FeaturedArtist - J. Guido, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - Nas, FeaturedArtist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist - R. Akinyemi, ComposerLyricist - N. Briscoe, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
J. Jackson, ComposerLyricist - C. Haggins, ComposerLyricist - Yafeu Fula, ComposerLyricist - I. Barias, ComposerLyricist - K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - Tupac Shakur, ComposerLyricist - 2PAC, FeaturedArtist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist - T. Himes, ComposerLyricist - M. Harding, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Amaru Entertainment
K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - Monica, FeaturedArtist - F. Taylor, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
T. Jones, ComposerLyricist - K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - J. Bereal, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
Victoria Horn, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist - Evan "Kidd" Bogart, ComposerLyricist - Jason Todd Miller, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
Samuel J. Barnes, ComposerLyricist - K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist - J. C. Oliver, ComposerLyricist - Russel Gonzalez, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
Samuel J. Barnes, ComposerLyricist - K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist - J. C. Oliver, ComposerLyricist - A. Mosley, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
K. Cole, ComposerLyricist - Keyshia Cole, MainArtist - Ross Owen, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2008 Geffen Records
Album review
A Different Me offers more dimensions, from lyrical and production standpoints, than Keyshia Cole's first two albums. Everything she recorded prior to this came from some degree of pain. Even though Just Like You's "Heaven Sent" was as beatific as anything else on the charts throughout 2008, its sentiment came more from a sense of relief in the wake of relationships gone sour, and "Let It Go" was made for the club but dealt with "roaming dogs." Overall, this is Cole's most free-spirited and adventurous album to date, and it is not without its stretches where reach exceeds grasp, like the jazzed-up, over-busy statement of purpose "Make Me Over" and the surprisingly saccharine "This Is Us." Yet there's a core of at least seven songs here that rate as highly as the best from the first two albums, and they're anything but reheated. "Don't Stop" beams with energy and pure, uncomplicated joy. "Oh-Oh, Yeah-Yea" is yearningly seductive, from Cole's pleas to its drawn-out tides of strings. In "Thought You Should Know," she doesn't drop her guard entirely while revealing more vulnerability than ever. "No Other" is the only track that sounds cut from the same cloth as Just Like You, and the resemblance is only in sound, with the equally urgent and sweepingly dramatic "Shoulda Let You Go" a definite reference, but the emotions between the two are starkly contrasting, with regret exchanged for aching desire. Cole pushes herself into new territory and becomes a more versatile songwriter and vocalist in convincing, frequently thrilling, fashion. Here's where the comparisons begin to fade away.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:53:38
- Main artists: Keyshia Cole
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Geffen
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2008 Geffen Records ℗ 2008 Geffen Records
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