Once again, all the twelve songs are written and performed by May Day themselves and four of them are hokkien tracks.  As suggested by the album's title, a lot of the songs here reflect the group's views and attitudes towards life.  Besides their past trademark "band" sound, the new album has reportedly incorporated string instruments to bring a new touch to their music.  Their latest offering is wholly recorded in their very own studio, a gift from Rock Records in recognition of the mammoth sales generated from their first two albums.  In fact the album's inner sleeves exhibit photos of how is it like working and living in their studio. 

The first single cum title track "People Life Ocean Wild" is a mid-tempo band number with a tinge of folk-rock.  

The album also contains their version of the movie theme-song "Migratory Bird" (or Hou Niao) which was originally sung by Rene Liu Ruo Ying (released earlier under the movie soundtrack album of the same name, with all the music helmed by May Day).  A note-worthy mention is that it features guitar playing and vocal support by the Japanese group Glay.

The album CD comes equipped with Power CD functions which allow their fans to view exclusive multimedia privileges via the Internet.

Don't Tell Me  能不能不要說 --------  

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"The Voice" is a live album that is recorded during her performance in two pubs located at Taipei and Gao Xiong.   In fact, for these past five years, Tiger has been shuttling between Taipei and Gao Xiong as a pub singer and in the process, she has built up a group of hard-core fans who are mesmerised by her powerful and throaty voice.

Containing a total of eleven tracks, Tiger has specially chosen a variety of Mandarin, Hokkien and English numbers to be included in the album.  I'm very happy to say that the selection includes a live rendition of her two most popular and (may I say) everlasting hits : the Sky Wu-composition "Not Just Friends" (or Bu Zhi Shi Peng You) and "Can't Get A Share Of Your Love" (or Fen Bu Dao Ni De Ai).

Other tracks include Na Ying's hit "Conquer" (or Zheng Fu), Mavis Fan Xiao Xuan's "I Want Us To Be Together" (or Wo Yao Wo Men Zai Yi Qi), Jiang Hui's Hokkien hit "I Have Loved Before" (or Wo Ai Guo) and Mariah Carey's "My All".

The album comes with a bonus CD which contains a brand new track titled "Fire Smoke Live". 

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Containing ten tracks, the album is mostly produced (nine songs to be exact) by Michael Lin (or Mai Ke Lin).  This is the same guy who forms part of the R&B trio group G Force (or Qiang Li Chong Pai) who released their debut album "Start From Zero" last year.  Therefore it comes as no surprise that Landy's latest offering is loaded with R&B/soul beats.

The first single "Can You Feel It" is an opening dance track written by Michael Lin and features a rap input by G Force.  The third single "L.A.N.D.Y" is a mid-tempo soul dance track also written by Michael.

The second single "Southern Star" (note : this song is promoted as the first single in both Singapore and Malaysia) is a nice R&B ballad written by Fang Wen Shan together with Landy and composed by hot property Jay Chou (or Zhou Jie Lun) (gossip note : Taiwan tabloids have been reporting about Landy and Jay being an item together but both of them have since stood out and refuted the claims).

Jay also composed two other R&B slow tracks here : "Tears Know" and "Moved", the latter being a duet ballad sung with producer Michael Lin.

A note-worthy mention is that Landy did a Mandarin cover "Hurried Love" of Japanese R&B female artiste Misia's 2000 hit "Believe".

Coupled the pre-dominantly listenable numbers with Landy's solid vocals, this album makes a groovy choice for those who are into Taiwan R&B pop music performed by a female artiste.

Final note : the first batch of limited-edition album comes bundled with a 32-page photo booklet.

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Her latest eleven-track offering is touted as a refreshing change from her past works in that she experiments with electronic music this time round.  A total of six producers are roped in including, among others, Hong Kong's Anthony Wong (or Huang Yao Ming), Chen Wei, rock group Luan Tan's leader A Xiang and the only female producer He Xin Hui.

Both the first and third singles, "Can't Hide" and "Flower In The Dark" respectively, are trance dance numbers while the second single "Are You My Happiness" is a ballad with lyrics written by Annie herself.  A Cantonese version of "Flower In The Dark" is also included.

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