Singer: Anita Mui
Record Company: Entertainment
Publication date: 1985
Executive Producer: Lai Siu-tin
01. Bad Girl
02. Dream Companion
03. Unforgettable Love
04. I'll hold you for ten centuries
05. The Radiance of Charm
06. Our hearts remain unchanged.
07. Iceberg Fire
08. A thousand more nights
09. Reclaiming My Happiness
10. Love at all times
11. I walk my own path alone.
- Following the success of her third album, "Anita Mui (Like Flowing Water)," Anita Mui released her new album, "Bad Girl." This album, mainly composed of upbeat and energetic songs, fully unleashed her innate wildness, rebelliousness, and charm. "Bad Girl" achieved astonishing ten-platinum sales, solidifying Anita Mui's status as a queen of the music scene and also announcing a complete transformation in her personal image.
- The cover design for the album "Bad Girl" was handled by Alan Chan, who boldly adopted a hollow design. Combined with the photos on the lyric page and the inner cover, it can be transformed into three different cover styles. The cutout silhouette of Anita Mui's androgynous image on the cover continues the style of the previous album. Through the cutout silhouette, the bottom layer of the cover highlights Anita Mui's "bad girl" look.
- "Walking My Own Path Alone" is an adaptation of Momoe Yamaguchi's "This is My Trial," composed by Japanese composer Shinji Tanimura and with lyrics by Cheng Kwok-kong. Before recording, Anita Mui changed the word "wind" in the original lyrics, "When I'm lonely, my shadow dances in the wind," to "song," instantly elevating the song's meaning and making it more fitting for her image as a singer. "Walking My Own Path Alone" can be seen as a reflection of Anita Mui's life. Having started singing on stage at the age of five, she experienced the ups and downs of life, enduring countless hardships along the way. Anita Mui poured the bitterness of her more than ten years of struggling alone in the entertainment industry into the song; her singing is firm and frank, revealing strength and open-mindedness.
- "Bad Girl" is an adaptation of Sheena Easton's "Strut," with lyrics rewritten by Lam Chun-keung. This song, using desire as a metaphor for love, meticulously depicts a woman's pursuit of desire, causing a sensation at the time and even spawning a cultural phenomenon, being considered to have liberal and women's liberation connotations. Lam Chun-keung created a series of works on the theme of "desire," including "The Last Dance" (Jenny Tseng), "200 Degrees" (Sally Yeh), "I Want" (Deanie Ip), and "The Last Night" (Princess Lau), the boldness of which caused an uproar among moralists.
- "Bad Girl" features a tight and powerful rhythm, bold and unconventional yet never vulgar lyrics, and a relentless drumbeat that runs throughout, all of which express a wild desire for freedom and liberation. Anita Mui's dashing and unrestrained singing voices the rebellious spirit deep within the hearts of women.
- The original singer of "Dream Companion" is Masahiko Kondo from Japan. This sad love song has a melancholy like falling leaves, and Lin Mincong's lyrics are full of imagery. Anita Mui's performance is free and easy, and she sings with a rare touch of playfulness.
- At the 1986 Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards Ceremony, "Dream Companion" and "Break the Iceberg" were both selected as Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs, and Anita Mui won the "Most Popular Female Singer Award" for the second consecutive year.
- Whether it's the avant-garde and rebellious "Bad Girl," or the cool yet tender "Iceberg Fire"; whether it's the unrestrained and passionate "A Thousand Nights of Madness," or the melodious and lingering "Unforgettable Love"; whether it's the unwavering "Two Hearts Unsettled," or the self-portrait "Walking My Own Path Alone," Anita Mui subtly unleashed her domineering, revealing, and resilient personality, along with her captivating charm, not only singing her own songs but also bringing an era to life.
- The album "Bad Girl" was Anita Mui's best-selling album, which solidified her status as the "Big Sister" of the Hong Kong music scene.
- From December 31, 1985 to January 14, 1986, Anita Mui held her first solo concert, "Anita Mui's Ever-Changing Brilliance Concert," at the Hong Kong Coliseum, performing 15 shows and breaking the record for the number of shows in a Hong Kong singer's first solo concert.
