After June 4, 1989, disillusioned musicians in the PRC felt that they were powerless to change anything, and local creative output dried up. Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music moved into the vacuum, a vacuum made all the larger by the demand for karaoke music.
少了大陸原創作品，源源不絕的港台歌曲填補了卡拉 OK 的大量需求。「最直接的影響，就是充當了港台歌曲風靡大陸的尖兵」，金兆鈞表示。