But mainland authorities found Teng's gentle, charming, and girlish voice and her mushy ballads to be the worst kind of bourgeois sentimentalism. At the most extreme, "When Will You Come Back Again?" was condemned as "reactionary ideology" and "a betrayal of the nation." Is the song hinting that the Kuomintang will return to recover China?
但對中共官方來說，鄧麗君的「輕、軟、媚、嗲」及風花雪月正是典型的靡靡之音；「何日君再來」也屬具有反動意識的「漢奸歌曲」：君再來，誰是「君」呢？