"After developing for many years and accumulating sufficient resources and fans, underground music formed a musical path between that of minority and mainstream music and then moved into the commercial market to become one of the mainstream types of music," wrote Lin Yi-ling in an article on the development path of Western underground music-- "The Reality and Confusion of Mainstream and Non-Mainstream Music."
「地下音樂經相當時間的發展，累積了足夠的資源、樂迷後，將形成一股介於小眾與主流的音樂路線，進而納入商業市場，成為主流之外的另一種音樂類別」，媒體工作者林怡伶在「主流與非主流音樂之事實與迷思」一文中分析西方地下音樂的發展脈絡。