By the time your coming age... The 90s was happening music wasn't the main thing in youth culture. It was sub culture at this point. Other things mattered more, like gaming.
Anyone who's coming age were the 60s or 70s or even the 80s would remember when music was just "it" for us. We had American Bandstand, Soul Train, Top Of The Pops, Ed Sullivan show, Club MTV or the days when talk shows use to invite artists on the show, very little TV channels we had 3 channels max, no household PC's or no "internet boom" as well.
We use to get super excited to buy our vinyl records, we had larger than life stars such as Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Sly and The Family Stone, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Queen etc.
Anyone who's 50+ would know since we're of a certain age... There's a reason why music between 60s-80s is still being played to this day and why they are being added into newer music such as "sampling" and that's been happening for god knows how long.