A pop music classic Let us go a step further to understand Teng and her significance for Mandarin pop music. Yeh Yueh-yu, a scholar of cultural theory, pointed out in an in-depth analytical piece that, attractive as Teng's voice undeniably was, there are different interpretations of her historical significance.
如果再進一步瞭解鄧麗君與國語流行歌的時代意義，專攻文化理論的葉月瑜有深入的分析，她在文章中指出，鄧麗君的歌聲具有迷人的多重性，連帶也產生不同的閱讀。