Though companies have escaped from the heavy folk music coloring of the "northwest wind" style, they place too much emphasis on packaging of artists and not enough on content, and they have not yet built the foundations for the flourishing of the mainland's own music industry.
金兆鈞分析，這時期的流行樂雖然脫離了西北風濃重的民族色彩，但太重歌手包裝，忽略作品內涵，並未促成大陸本土流行音樂的勃興。