Some students of Taiwanese song argue that the Taiwanese-dialect music scene began to decay at this point. "Songs that weren't about gangsters bit the dust," contends Chien Shang-jen, a member of the music community. He says that it became impossible to go back to the days of genteel compositions like "White Peony" and "If I Open Wide the Window of my Heart."
一些台灣民歌的研究者認為，閩南語歌樂自此淪落了，「不是混兄弟，就是墜入風塵」，音樂工作者簡上仁認為，回不到往日如「白牡丹」、「阮若打開心裡的門窗」等時期的雅歌境界。