the start of the great nineties

I was born on April 1990 and that year was the start of the last decade before the second millennium and also the start of some significant events (like me being born for an example!).

This year was the start of many changes in the world. In music, economics, politics, technology and so on. I'll start with music. The new music of electronic dance music, teen pop, Eurodance and most importantly this was when hip hop and alternative rock became mainstream music. Also during this year The Rolling Stones first ever tour of Japan started, The Byrds reunited after 25 years, Pearl Jam play their first song as a band and the first and last police musical (I don't know how THAT works) 'Cop Rock' premiers on television.(And was a massive failure)

Songs released in 1990 > Madonna -'Vogue', Mariah Carey 'Vision of love' (Just how OLD is she?!), MC Hammer -'U can't touch this' (I love this song!!) and Sinéad O'Connor- 'Nothing compares 2 U'.

In television during 1990 'Mr.Bean' (can't get enough of that show) premiered on ITV, as well as the shows 'The Bradys' on CBS and 'Law and order'. The massively popular 'The Beverly Hills 90210' started.

Top TV shows in 1990 > 'Cheers', '60 Minutes', 'Roseanne', 'A different world', 'The Cosby Show'

When talking about political events and economy and stuff there were many wars that started in that year. Like 'The Persian Gulf War' or just 'Gulf War' on August 2nd that lasted till February 1991; the was between Kuwait (Saddam Hussein) and Iraq along with 30 other nations around the world. (USA was a major contributor until Iraq started creeping out the human rights officials.)

Also great news during that year; Nelson Mandela was released from prison on February 11th. Which was a world celebrated event as far as I know. I wasn't there so I'm not sure.

And since I'm an astronomy fan I'll also include about the Hubble Telescope! Which had it's first launch on April 24th! Two days after my birthday!! Yay!! But of course it had an error so had to have a servicing mission again in 1993.

Heard of the Grunge? It became the massively popular fashion in that time after the 80's started dying out. When dressing in grunge fashion you wear flannel shirts and other typical outdoor clothing, often from the thrift shops.

But since the 80s fashion still existed during that time seeing people dressed in neon or fluorescent colored clothing and spandex tights was common too. Retro styled clothes inspired by the 1920s and 1960s were popular during the start of the 1990s; which included men's cardigan sweaters and colorless polo shirts for girls and women, bell-bottoms and crochet shirts were from the 1960s inspired fashion. And we shouldn't forget about Madonna!! She inspired many women and young girls to dress like her, which she still does.

Anyone wondered about the history of navel piercings? Well belly-button piercings started out in the early 1990s and this led to midriff style shirts which lasted until and throughout 2000s.

Well I guess that's all for 1990. I never knew that Emma Watson(Hermione:Harry Potter) and Kristen Stewart(Bella:Twilight) were born in 1990 and in April too!!! 1990 April was time for greatness!!! And also Sean Kingston was born in 1990; love some of his songs.

There were some significant deaths too I think but I don't recognize any of them. huh..

And most important of all!!! Manga started getting popular in the early 1990s!! It was during this time that Manga, which came in Japanese was translated to English and started being distributed in the western world.