In the 1990's, the society had a massive impact on the music that was coming out back then. Margaret Thatcher had come into power in 1979, she had a massive impact on British music, it was said that she was against the genre of punk/rock music which then caused a lot of bands to write songs against Thatcher. Thatcher was hated for a number of reasons, one of them being she destroyed Britain's manufacturing industry and her policies led to mass unemployment, ever since then her years 11 years of power led to change in music. Despite the fact Thatcher didn't like Punk/Rock music, during the 80's up to 1990, Rock music was incredibly popular. A song called "Margaret On The Guillotine" by Morrissey was released in 1988 in which the artist expresses his feelings towards Thatcher in a negative way, it is evident when he says, "Margaret on the Guillotine, cause people like you, make me feel so tired, when will you die?"
The 1990's was a decade in which technology started to advance very quickly cut as a massive use of internet and different musical genres starting to become popular. Bands such as Spice Girls became popular. The use of synths started to become popular in 90's music, it originally came from the hip-hop genre which started to cross over different genres of music. A band called "The Shamen" had a song called "Ebenezeer Goode" which might sound strange it today's modern society, however, when this song came out it had a massive impact on society due to the synths being used and rave culture being so popular. Rave culture was so important because it generally reflected what the 90's was all about. The 90's was all about: partying, drinking and dancing, many raves would take place in clubs as well as houses and sometimes forests. In today's modern music, synths are constantly used and are introduced in many songs, therefore, music in the 90's has had a massive influence in today's modern music.
In the 1990's the UK was still under a conservative government until when Labour came into power in 1997, the 90's was a special and important decade as technology and internet was developing at a fast rate. In 1995, Microsoft introduced Windows 95 which became increasingly popular over the years, due to the success of Windows, Windows 98 came out three years later which became even more popular. In 1991, Pro Tools was released which had faster processing, it became very popular and started being used by the most well known artists in the 90's. A great amount of Music genres became popular such as: Hip-Hop, Electronic Dance Music and Boybands/Girlbands started to become popular.
Artists such as Michael Jackson and Prince had a massive impact of worldwide success due to there inspirational music and lyrical content. Prince and Jackson were both compared massively due to there dynamic and high pitched voices, even though wars were still occurring, songs such as "Heal The World" by Michael Jackson managed to have a great response from the world as the song was about making a positive change and stopping deaths from around the world from happening. In the 1992 The Heal The World Foundation was founded to improve conditions for children across the world, this then inspired Michael to write Heal The World and make a positive change. As a musical artist myself, both these artists' music have had an amazing impact on me as an artist as there music is inspirational in many ways. This includes their vocal talent and their intention to make the world a better place which in general makes me write music from many different perspectives and improve in areas such as my songwriting and my vocals.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/24-inventions-that-changed-music-20140317/the-world-wide-web-1989-0403599
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pgxe59/memories-from-the-early-days-of-rave
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