’90s Pop Songs: The Era Of the Self-Contained Verse

’90s Pop Songs: The Era Of the Self-Contained Verse

There was a certain type of song that seemed to keep cropping up in the mid-’90s. Here’s my attempt to figure out why that was.Today in Tedium: Pop songs quite often focus on a single story—often the tale of the protagonist, who is trying to share a single message in a three-minute tune. (Some of those inward-looking messages, like that of Lorde’s provocative gender-bending new single “Man Of The Year,” can be quite sophisticated.) But there was…