As for her voice, it was well described in an article by University of Southern California cultural theory PhD Yeh Yueh-yu: "It was the sweetness in her voice that made her famous. She had a perfect voice for folk songs and ballads, and she added traditional folk song stylings into Western-style compositions. Her songs basically follow in the tradition of popular Shanghai music of the 1930s and 1940s.
在歌聲方面，鄧麗君「以甜潤嗓音著名，其小調式的唱腔在西式曲法中加入了傳統民歌的風味，她的歌曲基本上承襲了三、四○年代上海流行曲的風格，有類似周璇後期的味道」，美國南加州大學文化理論博士葉月瑜為文指出。