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Keyshia Cole Different Me Release Date: 2008 12 16 Label: Geffen 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 Tracks: Title Composer Time 1 Different Me "Intro" Owen, Cole 1:46 2 Make Me Over Dean, Jones, Turner, Turner 3:05 3 Please Don't Stop Jackson, Fair, Harr, Cole 4:03 4 Erotic Feemster, Fair, Cole 4:10 5 You Complete Me Feemster, Cole 3:50 6 No Other Guido, Poyser, Kwame, Cole, Harris 3:34 7 Oh-Oh, Yeah-Yea Akinyemi, Cole, Briscoe 3:57 8 Playa Cardz Right Himes, Haggins, Shakur, Fula, Jackson, Cole, Harding, Barias 4:51 9 Brand New Cole 4:16 10 Trust Cole, Taylor 4:13 11 Thought You Should Know Bereal, Cole, Jones 4:18 12 This Is Us Miller, Horn, Bogart 3:16 13 Where This Love Could End Up Barnes, Oliver, Cole 2:55 14 Beautiful Music Oliver, Mosley, Cole 3:58 15 Different Me "Outro" Owen, Cole 1:30 Releases: Year Type Label 2008 CD Geffen

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