"The songs express our reliance on Taiwan and our deep feeling for this island," Cheng said.
On the pan-blue camp's inclusion of the self-promoting Vote for Lien and Soong, Save Taiwan on their album, with the lyrics "vote for blue," Cheng was disapproving. "That's really bad taste. We want quality music and beautiful lyrics."
The pan-blue camp, on the other hand, has reservations about the DPP's frequent use of the word "Formosa" for Taiwan in their lyrics. "Yes, Taiwan is Formosa and Formosa is Taiwan. However, the 23 million people here know the name Taiwan, but not everyone knows Formosa. If some people want to use some peculiar name or Dutch [sic] name for Taiwan, they are free to do so, but we believe that Taiwan is the name everyone identifies with," the KMT's Chou said.
"Formosa is Taiwan, but using the name calls attention to Taiwan's complex identity and its history, which is very different from China's history," said Guy on the DPP strategy of calling Taiwan
Formosa.
Although some people questioned her politics when they found Guy had participated in the DPP's campaign rallies, she insisted that as a US citizen, she has no involvement in Taiwan politics. Campaign music does not influence her, she claimed. Neither did she think they would sway voters. "Campaign songs only bring out what you already believe. People interpret the songs from their established ideologies," she said.
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