Two heavy-weight female producers took charge of the whole album music : Paula Ma Yu Fen and Sandee Chen Shanni.  The marketing team of her record company has labelled the music collaboration from these three women as providing a feminine "3D" effect, that is, Deep (by Sandee), Detail (by Paula) and Different (by Sammi).

The first single is the easy-listening "Famous Words Of Wisdom" composed by You Hong Ming and written by veteran lyricist Chen Le Rong.  The second single being plugged in Taiwan is the mid-tempo ballad "Till The Spring Is Over" written by the Liu songwriting duo, namely Liu Zhi Hong and Liu Si Ming.  On the other hand, the second single that can be heard over the Singapore radio waves is the ballad "You Want Me To Be Brave" which reunites the two song writers, composer Lin Dong Song and lyricist Liao Ying Ru, both of whom wrote the previous hit song "I Deserved" (or Wo Yin Gai De Dao) for Sammi.

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Background info : she's a Singaporean Chinese with a bit of mixed blood in her; she was not born with a Chinese name, apparently she was called Michelle all her life, Zheng Xue Er is only her showbiz name; she first caught the attention of the media when she appeared in a mobile phone advertisement alongside Aaron Kwok; she has appeared in a few music videos such as Aaron Kwok's "The Call Of Love" (or Ai De Hu Huan) and Nicholas Tse's "Old Wound" (or Jiu Shang Kou); and she recently acted in Hong Kong's TVB serial "At The Threshold Of An Era - Part II" (or Chuang Shi Ji II) alongside Louis Koo (or Gu Tian Le) (gossip : the Hong Kong media has reported that they are seeing each other secretly).

This ten-track debut album is produced by Qian You Lan (note : she also produced another new release - "Shoulder" by Hong Wei), Chen Zi Hong and Jim Lee.

The first single is the light-tempo "I Am The Sun" composed by Edmond Leung and written by Yi Jia Yang.  The second single is the title track folkish ballad "Upfront" composed by Zheng Hua Juan and written by He Hou Hua.  The third single is "Baby I Love You" which is the Mandarin cover of the hit "Shakespeare In Love" by Layla Kaylif.

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Produced solely by Big Brother Jonathan Lee (whose wife Sandy Lam is a good friend of Prudence, having collaborated together in the 1996 group duet "I Swear"), this album is partly recorded in Vancouver Canada.

Over half of the songs here are written by Jonathan Lee & Pan Xie Qing, and the songs largely revolve around the subject of love which is observed from a woman's perspective.  The music style is made up mostly of easy-listening slow to mid-tempo ballads with a Western flavour.

The first single "Everytime I'm Serious" is a mid-tempo ballad composed and co-written by Pan Xie Qing.  It features the backup vocals of Jasmine Leung (or Liang Jing Ru) who also appears in other songs in the album.

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After more than three years, ex-air stewardess Hong Wei has released her second album under a new record label.  To signify a new beginning, she has even changed the Chinese character of "Wei" found in her name.

The album is produced by female musician Qian You Lan (who took up the production work for seven out of the ten tracks here) and music arranger Tu Hui Yuan.

Various music styles can be found here such as dance, jazz, ballad, rock and retro.  Song writers include the producers themselves (Qian You Lan and Tu Hui Yuan), Yao Ruo Long, Yang Li De and Mo Fan.  Hong Wei's voice is decent and sometimes I find she sounds a bit like another female beauty singer Yang Lin.

The first single is the Latin-feel dance track "Kiss" composed by Qian You Lan.  The second single is the ballad "Toy" composed by Tu Hui Yuan and written by Zhang Chun Chun.  The title track "Shoulder" is a light jazz piece written by Mo Fan (note : Mo Fan used to be from the duo group Fan Ren Er Chong Chang which was formed with another song-writer Yuan Wei Ren).

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