Back in 1978, mainland China was just embarking on reform and opening to the outside world. "At that time," says Wang Xiaofeng, a music critic in Beijing, "Pop music was completely unacceptable to the official value system."
一九七八年，大陸正走向改革開放的道路，「那時候流行歌完全不被官方主流價值接受，形象是違反社會道德、很低級的」，北京樂評人王曉峰說，電影裡小痞子的標誌不是提著收錄音機放流行歌招搖過市，便是跳 Disco。