Six producers from different countries are roped in to help out in the music work.  They are Chen Wei, Chen Zi Hong, Bao Xiao Bo (three of them from Taiwan), the Singapore twin brothers Li Si Song & Li Wei Song, and Daniel's Hong Kong music producer Kenneth Fong (or Fang Shu Liang).

The ten-track album is billed by the record company as a personal insight into Daniel's own feelings.  There seems to be a somber mood surrounding this release, most of the tracks are mid-tempo and slow, quite unlike his previous Mandarin releases which contain more up-tempo dance numbers.

The first single cum title track "Be Happier Than Me" is a sure-fire karaoke hit ballad composed by by Li Wei Song & Li Jing Shen and written by Chen Jing Nan.  In Taiwan, this song is also the Mandarin theme-song for the Ang Lee's movie "Ride With The Devil" (starring singer Jewel and uprising actor Tobey Maguire).

The second single is a light-tempo song called "Love You More Day By Day" which is the Mandarin cover of the boy group Westlife's song "Open Your Heart".  Other covers include : his Cantonese songs "Gift" and "Moonlight Bath" (both are found in his last Cantonese offering "Substance") which are now sung in Mandarin as "Don't Wanna Sleep" and "Dream" respectively; and "Won't Be Alone" which is the cover of Japanese ballad crooner Hideaki Tokunaga's (or De Yong Ying Ming) song "Bokund Ballad".

Song-writers include Yuan Wei Ren and Malaysian singer Deng Zhi Zhang.

Finally, Daniel flew specially to London to shoot the album pics and to film his music videos.

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The recording for this album was reportedly completed already last year but for undisclosed reasons, Decca Records has waited till now to release it.  It may have something to do with the fact that this is the last album that Decca Records is distributing for Kelly under her contract and furthermore there are rumours that East Entertainment (the company which Kelly, William So and Andy Hui are signed to) is going to end their collaboration with Decca Records and switch to What's Music (note : Decca Records and What's Music are actually somewhat related companies since both fall under the umbrella of the massive Universal Music group).

There are four producers helming the music work : Paula Ma (or Ma Yu Fen), Jim Lee, Zhou Bo Xiong (or better known as the former singer Xiao Gang) and Hong Kong musician Mark Lui (Lei Song De).  Expect to hear various music styles including R&B, techno, reggae, hip-hop and slow sentimental.

The first single cum title track "Love You So Much" is a radio-friendly ballad written by former singer Zuo An An.

More than half of the songs here are composed and written by Hong Kong writers such as Mark Lui, Lin Xi and singer Eddie Ng (or Wu Guo Jing).  One of these tracks is "Care Too Much" (or Dui Ni Tai Zai Hu), a mid-tempo ballad which is the Mandarin version of her Cantonese hit of the same name.

Possibly to prove their sincerity in working with Kelly, Decca Records has forked out a hefty packaging sum to make a so-called "Kelly Pack" which comes in the form of a magazine-size file which depicts the ravishing Heavenly Queen as a cover girl on both sides of the file.  Inside the file, it is equipped with a specially engraved pencil and a thick memo pad.  There are only 50,000 copies of the "Kelly Pack" available Asia-wide so if you are a devoted fan, make sure you grab this limited-edition copy.

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It contains specially selected songs that highlight the various music eras and styles of Mandarin, English, Cantonese and Hokkien music history.  Refer below for the full song listing in Big5 Chinese.

The first single "Time To Say Goodbye" is the Mandarin cover of the high-profile duet of the same name by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli.  A Mei has specially filmed a music video for this live track in which she is seen donning an eye-catching white gown which looks like a wedding outfit to me.

Other songs that she covered include Whitney Houston's movie hit song "I Will Always Love You", Abba's evergreen track "Mamma Mia" and the Mandarin oldie song "Unforgettable" or "Yi Nan Wang".

For the first time, she tried her hand on two Hokkien and Cantonese numbers.  The Hokkien song selected by her is reportedly her most favourite dialect track called "Who Understands My Feelings" written by Taiwan's king of  Hokkien pop cum song writer Cai Zheng Nan.  As for the Cantonese song "Genius and Stupid" (or Tian Cai Yu Bai Chi), it is written by Hong Kong's former and retired king of pop Sam Hui.

I'm quite disappointed with the visual design of the album.  Besides the cover picture, there are no other photos of A Mei found inside the album sleeves.  They could have shown more snippets of that night's event for the benefit of her fans who did not have the chance to fly to Hong Kong to watch the concert.  

Let's hope Forward Music will release a VCD of this live performance as I think it will make a better buy.

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The ten-song album is produced by Li Si Song, Jim Lee, Xue Zhong Ming and his manager Xiao Mei.

The title track cum first single "Journey" is a ballad written by a China song-writer by the name of Pu Shu.

Other song writers include TV host Huang Zi Jiao (or Jiao Jiao) (he wrote the lyrics for an interestingly-Chinese titled song called "Sorry I Love You" - refer below for the Chinese title), Lin Xi, Lin Dong Song, Yi Jia Yang, Huang Zhong Yuan and Xue Zhong Ming.

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