The album was released around the same time as her recently-held Taiwan concert, in which the highlights included her fashion parade of sexy outfits plus her public smooch with girl pal cum "Tempting Heart" movie co-star Gigi Leung (or Liang Yong Qi).

Coming back to the album, most of the songs here are mid-tempo ballads and their styles vary from ballads to jazz to acoustic.  A few upbeat and light rock tracks are interspersed throughout to liven up the album.

The first single "Oh Lonely Lovers" is a slow sentimental number composed by Wang Yi Long and written by Jonathan Lee.  It aptly depicts the lonely and heart-aching love souls living in the modern world today.

On the other hand, the second single "Couldn't Care Less" is a lively band rock song which will no doubt get you tapping on your feet on the first listen.

While most of the works here contain the inputs of Jonathan Lee, there are a few other prominent song-writers chipping in such as Tanya (she composed a track cutely called "Fluffy"), Xue Zhong Ming,  ex-Black Box member Zhang Jia Tian and China musician Xiao Ke (the same guy who wrote Elva's "Best Known Stranger" or "Zui Shou Xi De Mo Sheng Ren").

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More than five producers are roped in to make this album, including Benjamin Lin Ming Yang, Hong Kong producer Alex San, Hong Kong singer Eddie Ng or Wu Guo Jing, Wang Zhi Ping, arranger Zhong Xing Ming and background vocalist Chen Xiu Zhu.

The first single "Ready For Love" is a funky dance track composed and written by (surprise, surprise) Li Fei Hui.  Personally I thought that the song is not a sound choice to introduce her to Taiwan listeners who are more inclined to ballads and lighter pop material.  

The second single is the mid-tempo jazz-rock number "How Can One Be So Silly" composed and written by Wu Xu Wen.

Other note-worthy mentions : one of the songs "Let's Chat Some Other Day" is a Mandarin cover of Cecilia's own Cantonese track "Travel By Oneself" composed and co-produced by Nicholas Tse; the album also includes two different music-arranged versions of the previously-released theme hit "Star/Heart Words" (or Xing Yu Xin Yuan) taken from her movie "Star Wish" co-starring Richie Ren.

Finally, her album image cum cover art director is none other than model Fei Qi (or Qi Qi), better known as the wife of Hong Kong actor Simon Yam (or Ren Da Hua).

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The album is produced by, among others, long-time collaborator Li Zi Heng, rock group Luan Tan and Jiang himself.  

The title track "Afraid Or Not" is a duet sung with female singer E Jun (or Li Yi Jun).  There is also a solo version included.

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There are two new songs here and both are ballads.  The first single "People Are Spreading The Rumour" is a ballad composed by Liu Chong Yan (the same Hong Kong song writer who gave us Faye Wong's hit "Red Bean" or "Hong Dou") and written by Li An Xiu.

Twelve compilation songs are enclosed, including his debut hit "Don't Be Silly" (or Ni Bie Sha Le) sung with Andy Lau, "Saving Love" (or Qiang Jiu Ai Qing) and "I Love You" (or Wo Ai Ni).  Refer below for the full song listing in Big5 Chinese.

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