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Track Listing
1. Different Me " Intro", A
2. Make Me Over
3. Please Don't Stop
4. Erotic
5. You Complete Me
6. No Other - (featuring Amina Harris)
7. Oh-oh, Yeah-Yea - (featuring Nas)
8. Playa Cardz Right - (featuring 2Pac)
9. Brand New
10. Trust - (featuring Monica)
11. Thought You Should Know
12. This Is Us
13. Where This Love Could End Up
14. Beautiful Music
15. Different Me " Outro", A
Album Notes
Audio Remasterer: Bernie Grundman.
Oakland-born R&B songstress Keyshia Cole has been crafting top-shelf R&B that straddles the stylistic divide between the stridently modern, club-oriented R&B of contemporaries like Ne-Yo and the more backward-looking, classicist soul of Mary J. Blige. A DIFFERENT ME unquestionably favors the latter style. Even on tracks like "Oh-Oh, Yeah-Yea," which features dance-floor ready production from the Outsyderz and a guest appearance from Nas, Cole adopts a self-consciously dramatic, melismatic style of delivery that evokes the vocal virtuosity of divas like Blige and Whitney Houston. This is not to say that A DIFFERENT ME is a wholly conservative affair however. Though much of the album features a more lyrically introspective and musically ambitious side of Cole's artistic personality, tracks like the propulsive, Polow Da Don-produced "Make Me Over" ought to satisfy fans looking for more energetic material.
Industry Reviews
On A DIFFERENT ME, this Oakland-born belter turns her focus from heartbreak to happiness.
3 stars out of 5 -- 'Make Me Over' is a shimmying, string-pierce vamp...and 'No Other' pumps Spanish guitar into a Mary J.-style monogamy ode.
3.5 stars out of 5 -- Accentuating joy over pain to reflect her ascent from troubled beginnings, this is the rare upbeat R&B disc that still feels real.
Opposites attract on the acoustic gem 'This Is Us'....Promising an exclusive love, Keyshia lyrically seduces her man on 'Brand New'...
[O]n the noteworthy ballads 'You Complete Me' and 'Brand New,' Cole exhibits a growing confidence and command of her vocal talent.
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