Under pressure of market saturation, many Taiwanese songwriters gave up tunesmithing and switched to other lines of work. Later, the ROC government implemented a policy of compulsory use of Mandarin Chinese, and channels for the transmission of Taiwanese music were sharply limited.
市場生態丕變下，許多本土歌謠創作者紛紛停筆改行，而後又遭遇國民政府推行國語政策，規定廣播節目播放閩南語歌的時間不得超過 30％，傳播管道大為受限。