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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, All Music Guide
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- Just Like You
- Released 2007
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- The Way It Is (Parental Advisory)
- Released 2005
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- The Way It Is (Edited)
- Released 2005
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- Heaven Sent
- Released 2008
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Do Your Thing Girl!!
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- By LaNegrita43
- 9/7/2009 19:49:00
- I love Ms. Keyshia style she not afraid of change she open she's classy. Do your thing girl loving your music...
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This album has....
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- By BigVeney24
- 4/15/2009 15:08:40
- A futuristic feel to it, the intro to the songs on here give it a fresh new quality to the music, and of course, it's Kiesha at her best!
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- By pgteal
- 1/30/2009 17:40:06
- This is the first album of Keyshia Cole I brought simply because I have not heard much of her music in the past.Only Shoulda Let You Go have I knew about.So I decided to give her a try, My favorve is Please Don't Stop, I can't stop dancing to it. Also Playa Cardz Right is a classic.Trust is something I wish I had been listening to New Years Eve (It would have prevented me from a dumb move that night.Thought You Should Know,-well, you know Keyshia has to keep a guy on his toes to keep him honest.But I love the whole album.
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Keyshia Cole @ her best!
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- By Fifteen Karrot
- 1/29/2009 00:47:18
- I looove this album! This really is a different her and it captures her @ her best.
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The Princess of Hip-Hop Soul
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- By MistakenRope
- 1/22/2009 04:35:13
- I love the album is wonderful I love it she changed her style of music and voice has grown as well as I love her she's my favorite artist, Keep Doin ur thing Keyshia
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a different you...
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- By ladijay24
- 1/8/2009 03:17:44
- it sure is a different u....been listening to u since the day u became famous...my fav is #4 and 11....love the whole thing tho....keep it up god bless u and ur family always and forever...
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You GO Girl
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- By ClosedBarclay
- 1/1/2009 03:34:53
- You have come along way. You should be proud. Keep god first, and family before all. loved all the songs . fav no. 9. You keep growning and keep it real. love always
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The Princess of Hip-Hop Soul
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- By Babygirl702
- 12/31/2008 22:40:11
- KEYSHIA COLE IS THE PRINCESS OF HIP- HOP SOUL BECAUSE SHE IS A SINGER THAT YOU CAN HEAR THE SOUL IN HER VOICE SO WHEN MARY J. BLIGE STEPS DOWN FROM THE CROWN THEN KEYSHIA'S STEPPIN UP
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If you play ur cards right....
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- By Electric Groove
- 12/29/2008 02:37:09
- Thas my joint. Keyshia Cole you go girl! Keep them albums dropin. Sexy light skinned female!
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After th@ P@in
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- By shavon27
- 12/22/2008 00:12:20
- After all that this soulful songstress has been through, she now deserves to break through and show the world her personality all on her own without the drama....she broke through in the beginning, and now is the time for her to break out with a new profound spirit that will keep her soaring to the top....
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