Jewel and Starbucks and both Phoebe and Rachel’s place in Friends came out of this early 90s where “the coffeehouse” and “the coffeehouse singer”* were having a moment

As the Mike Meyers movie So I Married An Axe Murderer depicts, “slam poetry” was at the time part of this complex, but by the 2000s that was marked as a bougie black thing

*acoustic guitar, kinda hippie-dirty, in retrospect reenacting the 60s singer-songwriter second folk revival but not knowingly, just cause the boomers had made The 60s our master narrative to re-enact, also in retrospect I’m sure a lot of it was really boomers appreciating fresh young girls reenacting those roles