"The Way It Is" will always be that Keyshia Cole album for me that will define the year 2005. 5 years later, I realize that it is unfair of me to "require" her to recapture that moment for me. Music, like feelings, is/are dynamic. They move, they shift, and Keyshia has moved and shifted.

The girl who sang the brilliant and heartfelt track "I've Changed My Mind" could only exist for that brief moment and if you weren't there you will never know how her TRUE fan base was moved by this song. I was there and I will always cherish that moment. However, it's 2010 and I have to move with her.

I like the sound of the new album. I'm definitely buying it.