Editing Suzanne Vega (section)

=== 1990s ===
Vega's third studio album, ''[[Days of Open Hand]]'' (1990), continued in the style of her first two studio albums.

In 1992, she released her fourth studio album {{proper name|''[[99.9F°]]''}}, which mixed [[folk music|folk]] and [[pop music]] with electronic elements.<ref name="Chiu 2017 i377">{{cite web | last=Chiu | first=David | title=Suzanne Vega Talks About '99.9F°' Turning 25 and Her New Carson McCullers Play | website=HuffPost | date=September 8, 2017 | url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/suzanne-vega-talks-about-999f-turning-25-and-her_b_59b26530e4b0c50640cd6673 | access-date=April 27, 2024}}</ref> This record was awarded Gold status by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] in recognition of selling over 500,000 copies in the U.S.<ref name="riaa.com"/> The single "[[Blood Makes Noise]]" from this album peaked at number-one on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'''s [[Alternative Airplay|Modern Rock Tracks]]. Vega later married the album's producer, [[Mitchell Froom]].<ref name="Chiu 2017 i377"/>

Her fifth studio album, ''[[Nine Objects of Desire]]'', was released in 1996.<ref name="Larkin"/> The music varies between a frugal, simple style and the industrial production of {{proper name|''99.9F°''}}. This album contains "[[Caramel (Suzanne Vega song)|Caramel]]", featured in the movie ''[[The Truth About Cats & Dogs]]'' (1996), and later the [[Trailer (promotion)|trailer]] for the movie ''[[Closer (2004 film)|Closer]]'' (2004). A song not included on that album, "Woman on the Tier", was featured on the soundtrack of the movie ''[[Dead Man Walking (soundtrack)|Dead Man Walking]]'' (1996).

In 1997 she took a singing part on the concept album ''[[Heaven & Hell (Joe Jackson album)|Heaven & Hell]]'', a musical interpretation of the [[seven deadly sins]] by her colleague [[Joe Jackson (musician)|Joe Jackson]], with whom she had already collaborated in 1986 on "Left of Center" from the ''[[Pretty in Pink (soundtrack)|Pretty in Pink]]'' soundtrack (with Vega singing and Jackson playing piano).<ref name="Morse">{{Cite news |last=Morse |first=Steve |date=September 5, 1997 |title=Stepping Out: Pop star turned classical composer, Joe Jackson takes on the Seven Deadly Sins |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5870313/santa_cruz_sentinel/ |newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel |location=Santa Cruz, CA |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=July 12, 2016}} {{Open access}}</ref>

In 1999, [[Avon (publisher)|Avon Books]] published Vega's book ''The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writings of Suzanne Vega'', a volume of poems, lyrics, essays and journalistic pieces.<ref name="Gewertz">{{Cite news |last=Gewertz |first=Daniel |date=February 24, 1999 |title=Vega has 'Eye' for passionate poetry |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-57107504.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911025256/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-57107504.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 11, 2016 |newspaper=The Boston Herald |location=Boston, MA |access-date=June 28, 2016}}</ref>