Speaking of Titanic, the major hit from that could be added to the dreary mid 90s lol. "My Heart Will Go On" droned on and on. Same could be said for Toni Braxton's "Un-break My Heart". Both songs a little too depressing.
...the reason we never what the ending of "Titanic"!

This page from Nickelodeon Magazine is about as mid 90s as it gets:

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sorry, I fell asleep

sorry, I fell asleep


What?

I said that I fell asleep

Gangsta rap was not colorful, most rappers wore Flannels or shirts with Gunstraps vests on them like Tupac, TLC is the only really exception with their video for Waterfalls (where their outfit is shiny)  I think you are confusing early 90s episodes of Prince of Bel Air which the fashion then was Campy and neon  Vs  94 95 96 episodes where the color was more muted for clothing. Space Jam was not really neon, also that was a movie with cartoons in it so you can't really count it.

Biggest Example of this is Boy Meets World a show that started in 1993 and ended in 2000


Early 90's Episodes

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Mid 90's

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Late 90's/Early 2000's

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It all depends on what section of the 90's you are looking at wether it will be colorful, muted or bright, as
Alannis & TLC all have videos spanning different sections of the 90's. A song like Red Light District from TLC in 95
is going to look different than NO scrubs which came out in 99. All 3 sections of the 90s felt VERY different't living in
them, It is kind of you kind had to be alive to really have it sink in.


Those clothes from the first season episodes of Boy Meets World don’t look like early 90s clothes. Those clothes might have been made in the early 90s. I’m not sure what you mean by early 90s clothes.

These are early 90s clothes:

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A lot more written letters, phone calls, and seeing people in person that's for sure. More time was spent going outside and enjoying life and nature, society wasn't as PC imo and it felt a little more free to me. Of course fashion was terrible, video games were blocks of pixels, and music was more about grunge/alternative.  Movies still had a personal feel to them with VHS tapes and a small CRT TV but rewinding them sucked. I had a good time during the 90s but I felt it was fairly dull at times.

Being bookend between the collapse of the Soviet Union and 9/11 gave the 90s a seemingly peaceful feel.
The mid90s had a kind of idyllic but boring feel to it. The mid90s was the most idyllic period in my lifetime. Then again, I was a kid.
If you were a kid, Nickelodeon was HUUUUGEEE...unless you didn't have cable or access to cable.
The mid90s were right before everyone started to really get thirsty over the possibilities of millennium technology.
The knowledge that the digital future was coming still hovered above like dark clouds forming.
The three biggest international crisis I remember during that time was the Rwandan genocide, earthquake in Haiti, and Bosnian Serbian War
My neighbor's father was deployed to Bosnia at some point.
I think this period was where I heard the term NATO the most in my lifetime
Gay marriage and gays in the military became a huge issue.
Homosexuality was still a pretty taboo subject and most people didn't even try to be nice about their bias against it
But while this was true, all the fighting about gay marriage and gay soldiers gave LGBT people an opportunity to reveal themselves
To me, this period up to 97 was the greatest era for sitcoms.
People played outside a lot more and video games hadn't yet taken hold of male youth
If you think the pornography scene is gross now, pornography back then seemed a VHS dumpster fire compared to the digital sleekness of today
The anime scene was also a dumpster fire and very niche

Being bookend between the collapse of the Soviet Union and 9/11 gave the 90s a seemingly peaceful feel.
The mid90s had a kind of idyllic but boring feel to it. The mid90s was the most idyllic period in my lifetime. Then again, I was a kid.
If you were a kid, Nickelodeon was HUUUUGEEE...unless you didn't have cable or access to cable.
The mid90s were right before everyone started to really get thirsty over the possibilities of millennium technology.
The knowledge that the digital future was coming still hovered above like dark clouds forming.
The three biggest international crisis I remember during that time was the Rwandan genocide, earthquake in Haiti, and Bosnian Serbian War
My neighbor's father was deployed to Bosnia at some point.
I think this period was where I heard the term NATO the most in my lifetime
Gay marriage and gays in the military became a huge issue.
Homosexuality was still a pretty taboo subject and most people didn't even try to be nice about their bias against it
But while this was true, all the fighting about gay marriage and gay soldiers gave LGBT people an opportunity to reveal themselves
To me, this period up to 97 was the greatest era for sitcoms.
People played outside a lot more and video games hadn't yet taken hold of male youth
If you think the pornography scene is gross now, pornography back then seemed a VHS dumpster fire compared to the digital sleekness of today
The anime scene was also a dumpster fire and very niche


There has never been more Nickelodeon merchandise in stores than what we saw in the mid 90s. There were Rugrats paperback books in Barnes and Nobles. Nicktoons trading cards and Ren and Stimpy candy dispensers at record and video stores. Who can forget about the orange VHS tapes, Nickelodeon Magazine, and GAK? Not to mention, Are You Afraid of the Dark and Clarissa Explains It All board games. Hey Dude and Fifteen chapter books that didn’t sell in the early 90s were even on clearance in some book stores. The mid 90s were a great time to be a Nickelodeon fan in general.

All late 80s kids (Xennials) had were Double Dare yoyos and other Double Dare memorabilia.

The mid 90s were better for Millennials that watched Nickelodeon all weekend long than any other time in 20th century history.

The mid 90s were the new early 70s. Instead of Woodstock, there was Lollapalooza. Children were reading X-Men and collecting troll dolls. The turtleneck trend of the late 80s carried well past the mid 90s.