[2] It was ultimately the last album of hers that Chang was actively involved with due to his untimely death caused by a car crash five months later.

[6][7] The album also managed to shift more than six million copies throughout Asia in just six months, setting a major record for the highest sales for a Taiwanese singer.

[8][9] In order to promote Bad Boy, five songs off it were released as singles; the title track, "Can't Cry," "Whenever I Think About You," "Dancing Alone" and "Listen to the Sea."

[2] At the time of the album's production, Forward Music was just starting out, and producer Chang's request to A-Mei was to incorporate the singing style of the Beinan countryside into the songs, and sing them "a bit rockier, a bit more violent"; he hoped to inspire A-Mei's unique qualities, believing that such qualities were not possessed or were too shy to be displayed by urban women, the largest audience for pop music.

[22] On the day of writing the lyrics of "Listen to the Sea," Eric Lin went to a small bar with a book and didn't come out until four in the morning, then followed the bartender and drove to have a late-night snack, and at that time the dawn was breaking in the sky, and one of the waiters suddenly said that she would like to go to the seaside to have a look, and everybody felt that the proposal was good, so the group went there.

All their answers were different, which gave Lin a certain understanding of women's views on relationships in that era, and laid the groundwork for the creation of "Listen to the Sea.

[26] Bad Boy opens with the track "Can't Cry," a power ballad that fully demonstrates A-Mei's prowess in singing lyrical slow songs.

Enemy?," the albums eighth track, is a pop rock and R&B ballad composed of an orchestral music arrangement and dark harmonies.

[26] The album's title track made it onto the leaderboard of the 4th China Music Awards' Chinese Top 20 Chart Songs, which was held by Channel V.[30] At the same ceremony she also won the prize for Best Newcomer.