It confirmed her move into alternative music and covers songs by the Cocteau Twins, whose influence she readily acknowledged.

[5] The album cover was unusual for its time: instead of any image of the singer's face, the main cover design shows overlapping phrases such as "no new images" and "no photo booklet" in Chinese characters of varying size, all of which have some strokes missing but allowing the phrase still to be discerned.

[2] The title track "Random Thoughts" is a cover of the Cocteau Twins' "Bluebeard".

Track 5, "Know Oneself and Each Other", covered their song "Know Who You Are at Every Age", which was likewise from their 1993 album Four-Calendar Café.

Track 3, "Heaven and Earth", is a cover of Taiwanese singer Phil Chang's 1993 hit "Well-Intentioned" (用心良苦).