Responding to the view that "hybrid" songs choked off the production of purely Taiwanese songs and were unpatriotic, Wen says, "My motivation for writing 'translated' songs was a love of my country. In those days, people still had the Japanese melodies in their heads. By putting Taiwanese words to those melodies, I gave people something other than Japanese songs to sing."
對於「混血」歌曲扼殺了台語歌謠創作，或是不愛國的質疑，文夏不以為然地反駁：「我創作翻譯歌曲的出發點是愛國心，既然當時大家唱的都還是日本的旋律，我這樣將日本旋律加上台語歌詞，不就可以讓大家不再一味唱日本歌嗎？」