A Different Me (CD)

A DIFFERENT ME is the third studio album by R&B singer and songwriter Keyshia Cole. The road to riches wasn't easy for Keyshia yet her hard work and great voice are her successful rewards. Besides the release of a 2008 album, the new season of her BET reality show, touring and personal appearances, Keyshia is gearing up for the production of a movie based on her life. The lead single off the album, quot;Playa Cardz Rightquot; featuring Tupac, originally appeared on Tupac's Pac's Life, and this version was rearranged by the hugely successful Grammy nominated Cole with producers Ron Fair plus Carvin and Ivan.

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

Performer	Keyshia Cole
Music genre	R&B / Soul
Music subgenre	CD - URBAN
Music release type	Release
Media format	CD
Original release date	2008
Edition	Standard
Language	English
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	Keyshia Cole - Different Me [CD]
Track listing	Different Me "Intro",Make Me Over,Please Don't Stop,Erotic,You Complete Me,No Other - Keyshia Cole,Oh-Oh Yeah-Yea - Keyshia Cole,Playa Cardz Right - 2Pac Keyshia Cole,Brand New,Trust - Keyshia Cole,Thought You Should Know,This Is Us,Where This Love Could End Up,Beautiful Music,Different Me "Outro"
Record label	Geffen Records
Songwriter	Keyshia Cole
Music producer	Ron Fair, Carvin, Ivan
Number in series	3
Track name	Playa Cardz Right
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N