★★★★★
On her fifth album, Keyshia Cole has put her formidable talents to their best use yet. Her forte remains the scorned-woman ballad, and over the course of Woman to Woman she ranges through suspicion, frustration and anger, her voice as heavy with emotion as ever. But if, in the past, Cole has sometimes come across as a boilerplate version of Mary J Blige - all cried out with nothing to say - she brings this set to life...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Cole is a multiplatinum star who had a hit reality show and recently became a mother. But the Oakland diva's fourth album is by no means a celebration: Cole is a heroine who thrives off tales of conflict, betrayal and survival. Her voice is as grit-flecked as ever, chewing through blaring beats and going pound-for-pound for ferocity with fellow bruiser Nicki Minaj ("I Ain't Thru")...
- www.rollingstone.com
2010-12-27
★★★★★
What a difference two years can make. When her previous CD, A Different Me, dropped, Keyshia Cole was cleaning house personally and professionally, ending her successful reality show, severing her ties with boyfriend Young Jeezy and distancing herself from the toxicity of her birth mother and sister, Frankie and Neffe. Self-assurance and serenity seemed miles away...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-27
★★★★★
Keyshia Cole can gush a love song as well as anyone, but it's on I-don't-love-you-no-mo' numbers that she really shines. "Should Have Cheated" plays like a response to Usher's "Confessions," while "(I Just Want It) to Be Over," co-written by Alicia Keys, is a subtle slow-burner. Her wounded passion comes out on "Love," a vocal workout that could get her a job on Broadway...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Well, maybe not exactly like you ("Let It Go," "Just Like You").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
Her complaisant act is as sexy as she wants when it works, but she doesn't take to it that well ("Make Me Over," "Oh-Oh, Yeah-Yea").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Bet she still hangs with her girlfriends ("I Should Have Cheated," "I Changed My Mind").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
R.GIF&B; singer and oft-accused Mary J...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
As on her gripping 2005 debut, The Way It Is, Keyshia Cole still traffics inheartache. But whereas Way relied on raw hip-hop beats, Just Like You drips withtreacly strings and piano. This counterintuitive lushness smothersCole's modest wail on cuts like "Heaven Sent." The album's best tracksare its barest: "Same Thing (Interlude)," a sparse, funky hymn to aromantic rut; and the loping-drumbeat-dominated "Last Night," whichappears here just as it did on Diddy's 2006 Press Play...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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