I was 20 in 1996, but I've never heard this song. My wife and I were living together way out on Cape Cod in a rented house that year. We had no TV and no car (and obviously no internet). We walked or rode our bikes to work, and went hiking or hung out at the tiny local library on our day off. We played classical music on the radio at work. We were happy to be cut off from "popular culture" and I guess it worked.