Comparatively speaking, although Taiwanese music began developing in the Japanese occupation era, because of limits on regional dialect programming for TV and radio, as well as the "cold shoulder" long given to it by intellectuals, the target audience has always been working class.
比較之下，閩南語歌曲雖然自日據時期開始發展，但其間曾因方言節目在電視、廣播中受到播放數量的限制，加上長久以來受到知識份子的「冷落」，訴求對象一直限於中下勞工階層。