Keyshia Cole hit a bump in the road and a double edged sword career wise. Reality TV doesn't work that well for established artist anymore, or not as well as it did in the mid 2000's. Keyshia has always made great music, even her weakest album is still decent. It's just in the beginning of her career she wasn't that great live, her marriage fiasco, her claiming not to be black, and then letting herself be advertised as the new "Mary J Blige" hurt way more than it helped.
There seems to be unrealistic expectations amongst regulars here. Once an artist flops three times in a row, the chances are slim to none that they will come back from it in this day and age, this isn't the 80's where the flops of the 60's and 70's finally got their just dues.

All Keyshia can do at this point is do her reality TV bid, hope that it introduces her to a new generation and continue to make great music. Everything may fall into place or not. Either or there aren't many post 2004 R&B artist left and certainly not many that can boast such an solid catalogue of music. I'll be buying her album whenever it drops. The way it is, just like you and a different me are absolute contemporary R&B classics that got me through some of best and worst of times in my life. She will forever have a fan in me because of those three albums.