[1] The band usually sings about sex and relationship issues in a forward political manner.
At Hang on the Box's first performance at Beijing's Scream Club in 1998, their songs did not have lyrics and only high-pitched screeching accompanied their power chords.
[2] Their music could be described as cheerful and hilarious, deadly serious, and personally political[citation needed].
Most of the questionable content involved comes in the form of native Chinese speakers using English commonplace epithets.
[citation needed] Gia Wang has said that in the early days it was hard for the band to play in China and they were not welcomed by the Chinese market so without signing to a Japanese label she would have been unable to continue her music career.