In her book, Viewing Taiwanese Society through its Pop Music, sociologist Tseng Hui-chia writes that the GIO's action demonstrates how, after being discouraged for many years, Taiwanese-language songs rode the nativist tide to official acceptance within the cultural sphere.
社會教育學者曾慧佳在《從流行歌曲看台灣社會》一書中就表示，這可以視為台語歌曲在長期被壓抑之後，藉著本土思維的高漲，首度進入官方認可的文化場域中。