Will Lin, who is willing to take on the mainstream, cites Mayday, Wu Bai, Cheer Chen, Jay Chou, and Sodagreen as evidence of Taiwan's free-speech, unrestrained society that is once again, as in the past, the fountainhead of Mandarin pop. Such a relaxed social environment could not be easily recreated just anywhere.
有心與主流市場一較長短的林暐哲認為，從五月天、伍佰、陳綺貞、周杰倫、蘇打綠這些創作歌手可以看出，台灣作為一個言論自由、沒有包袱的社會，目前依舊是華語流行音樂的龍頭，這種自在舒服的音樂文化，不是其他地區所能輕易複製的。