Nowadays, every song has its own time, and often the lyrics take a back seat to the music. As a result, everyone is busy learning new songs, and there is no space for creative display in rewriting lyrics. "It's truly a disaster," Tsang Ting-sheng says of this movement away from creative participation.
現在每首歌皆有自己的新曲調，而且曲的音樂性往往還強過詞的內涵，結果大家忙著學新歌，人人原有的創作力都反而萎縮了，對於今昔流行歌的比較，臧汀生不禁戲謔地說，「真是災禍」。