With her debut album ‘The Way It Is’ entering the Billboard top 10 and having been hotly tipped by the likes of Brandy and Mary J Blige, Keyshia Cole is is fast rising to the pinnacle of super stardom. ‘I Changed My Mind’ produced by Kanye West is a catchy, hand clappy, stop start bass groove number that samples Alain Toussaint’s ‘Get out of my life, woman’. The double A-side to ‘I should Have Cheated’ Keyshia sings passionately about moving on from an unappreciative man declaring ‘I don’t love you no more’. Although we never seem to tire as a race from the subject of love and all its implications, these contemporary R&B flavours can become somewhat monotonous at times.‘I Changed My Mind’ is not tarnished with this brush and bumps along with oozing innovation. How much better can this young lady get? More of the same please! Thoroughly enjoyable.
Rating: 4.5/5
Record Labels: A&M Records
Words By: Peter Litchfield