Occasionally, the songs don't reflect their age very well, as on the regrets of a stay-at-home girlfriend ("I Wish I Wasn't") or an increasingly angry housewife who's been neglected ("Like Ya Used To"). The arrangements aren't exactly hooky, but the cast of producers - including Dallas Austin, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and D'Influence, use everything in their power - from a Hammond B-3 to synthesizers - to flesh out these songs. Headley, a singer whose vocal strength isn't mere compensation for a lack of interpretive skills or lame songwriting, possesses a range that's surprising and welcome she slips on dramatic personas continually here, quite ironic considering the title. Though she didn't come out of the R&B tradition, Heather Headley has plenty of soul on her debut, This Is Who I Am.
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