Arts&Entertainment Wonderwall stands strong Oasis celebrates their 20-year legacyChelsea not so BY JOEY POSTIGLIONE life and heavily distorted guitar sound. Oasis’ Definitely Maybe changed all of that ug. 29 marked the 20-year with its more optimistic lyrics like track six, Lately anniversary of the Grammy anymore titled “Supersonic” with its verses about A nominated band Oasis’ record- self-pride: “I need to be yourself, I can’t be breaking first album Definitely Maybe. no one else.” Since the band’s award-winning debut Lyrics like that and others on the BY TIM NUTTING Going to her show and watching live in 1994, Oasis has gone on to release album is what made Oasis’ music have such was a memory I will not ever forget. Along six more studio albums and has become a strong connection with their fans. uring the 2000s, it seemed like a man’s with hearing vulgar-rap songs in between one of the world’s most influential and As it turns out, many of the bands world in late-night comedy. Comedians breaks from the show, seeing her ridicule controversial bands. popular today, such as Coldplay, The Killers like Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel her guests and co-workers was a gut-busting The group’s two leading figureheads, D and Artie Monkeys, were big fans and also ruled midnight entertainment. However, along experience. brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher, first got heavily influenced by Oasis and their lyrics. came a sharp-tongued lady from New Jersey by I mean, come on, listening to her make their start playing in the nightclub scene “I always loved their songs,” said the name of Chelsea Handler. fun of Justin Bieber or the Kardashian family in England during the early 1990s. Playing frontman for The Killers Brandon Flowers. For seven years, she made the E! Channel left me to leave the show in tears. mostly songs written by Noel then, the band “I remember seeing them play ‘Don’t Look her domain. But like every great empire, all good She even landed a side show on E! called was signed by Creation Records after agent Back In Anger’ and it was almost religious, things must come to an end. After Lately. Pretty much, it was similar to Alan McGee saw them playing at King Tut’s the whole crowd screaming along. It was The basis of her talk show is gathering funny the show The Office, but more vulgar and Wah Wah in Glasgow, Scotland, a gig the amazing.” comedians on her roundtable and discussing crass. It was interesting to see how the office band had to reportedly bully their way into. “With Oasis, it’s just that attitude like pop-culture and current events, only to heavilyat the Chelsea Lately headquarters worked. After being signed, the band it’s resistant against everything else that’s criticize it in a humorous and condescending But alas, her show came to an end Aug. immediately got to work on putting going on in music,” said lead singer of manner. 28. She went out with a bang. Her hour-long together their first album, which turned Arctic Monkeys Alex Turner. “I don’t know She was not afraid to push the envelope finale episode included all the highlights out to be a long and strenuous process. if you can fully understand that — it’s likeon any subject matter, and by that, she was and great times during her show. The record went through a number of re- an impulse, innit?” not afraid to tell someone to go to hell. Her However, instead of making fun of recordings and was placed in the hands of Even 20 years later Oasis still has a big humor was devoid of any respect. Race, people as usual, she managed to give a multiple sound engineers until the band’s influence on the youth of today. gender, religion — you name it — it was all heartfelt and pleasant ending to her show. deadline was up. At the last minute, sound “I always loved them growing of hers to offend and make fun of. She started it off with an uncomfortable engineer Owen Morris was finally able to up; ‘Wonderwall’ (and) ‘Champagne Handler has had a collection of A-list naked shower segment with Ellen DeGeneres, achieve the loud, rough sound the band Supernova’ are some of my favorite songs,”celebrities come on her show — everyone wanted for the album. asking how salty she was for not being asked said freshman business major and Oasis fan from athletes to animal trainers, movie to be on her show. Upon its release, Definitely Maybe Matt Rondberg. “A lot of what I write now stars to comedians. The plethora of guests Perhaps one of the iconic moments of was praised by both critics and fans alike. creatively is influenced by them and their had quite the experience on her show. Her her finale was when her friends Jennifer Receiving perfect ratings from Rolling Stone style.” aggressive but amusing sense of humor Aniston, Sandra Bullock and Mary and NME, the album became the fastest- Definitely Maybe was re-released this certainly left a mark on her audience. selling record in England and launched McCormack gave Handler an intervention. year with a special re-mastered three-disc But of course, perhaps the most She even managed to reconnect with her Oasis into worldwide popularity. In the set in celebration of the 20th anniversary. important star of her show was Chuy Bravo,former boy-toy rapper 50 Cent. span of one turbulent year, Oasis went from Handler’s nugget-size partner in crime. He being a band playing late-night seedy pubs A multitude of A-list celebrities joined was perceived as lazy and incompetent and the comedian for a group sing-a-long, to sold-out stadium events. seeing him sit there in his chair was good The reason for the big success of parodying the “We Are the World” song. enough for the viewefs. Kicked off by Gwen Stefani, Handler and Definitely Maybe and why it would be voted Handler even has a funny fixation for the rest broke out into song and signed off by fans as the number-one British album miniature things, or as she says, nugget­ of the past 50 years ahead of albums by the the show. Celebrities included Tim Gunn, sized things. However, do not mention the Alanis Morissette and Dave Grohl, just to Beatles — who were a big influence on Oasis, m-word in front of her. You know, the word some even saying they had an obsession with name a few. midget. Although her show is officially over, I them — and The Rolling Stones is because Being a devout member of her fan base, at the time, their sound and message was so can only hope that she continues to make I have watched her show for a while and it people laugh in her future endeavors. What different from everything else bands at the was a pleasure watching her perform almost a ride it has been Ms. Chelsea Handler. time were playing. The ‘90s were dominated every night on TV. Seriously, I love this by American grunge bands such as Nirvana woman so much; I even went to her show. I and Pearl Jam with their angsty lyrics about even wanted to have my own show like hers.