Music Album: Woman to Woman by Keyshia Cole

In 2010, Keyshia Cole was riding on a personal high, she found the man of her dreams and decided to settle down and have her first child. With so much love in her life, it inspired her to record an album to detail how happy and in love she was (Calling All Hearts) - which was not received too well by her fans and critics, many claiming that she is at her best when she is singing about heartbreak and bad relationships. The r&b songstress went back to the drawing board and decided to record music that her fans wanted, the result being Woman To Woman. Even though I was huge fan of the Hearts era, I must admit that Cole is best when she is singing about being unhappy and loveless.

Though the album's first single has not performed too well, it has become one of 2012's biggest r&b ballads - Enough of No Love sees Keyshia team up with Lil' Wayne, singing about a cheating lover, she sings 'Can't say I'm not hurt/i'll be damned if I'm broken/What we had is now hers/Let her know she can have it". Most of the album follows through with the bad relationships theme, but two that stick out the most are the second single Trust and Believe and the title track, a mature duet with fellow r&b diva Ashanti. Keyshia still manages to throw in a few songs about love, which brings me to the highlight of the album because she delivers, in my opinion, the best song of her career - the vocally powerful and beautifully written I Choose You.

Woman to Woman will no doubt satisfy her fans, myself included, as she returns to the style of music that made us all fall in love with her. After this, I think Keyshia needs to think of the next step in her evolution which I think she is already thinking of as shown in bonus track Here We Go, her evolution does not necessarily have to be in the topics that she writes about, but her overall sound. If she plans to be one of the saviours of r&b, she would need to come up with a fresh new sound that will appeal to a dominant contemporary music buying public.