![]() E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator I'm not sure what you're hearing but that's what we're singing.Right, Michael?". Andrew stuttered the best response he could: "Well, no, the chorus, as far as I know, is 'I am elegantly wasted'. Andrew's face flushed while Michael sat in silence, smirking like the cat who swallowed the canary. "I've been listening to this chorus over an over-great song, by the way, guys-but I've got to ask you, are you saying 'I'm better than Oasis?' I swear I hear that on the background vocals," the DJ said. ![]() Michael and the engineer spent the next hour or so doing just that, adding layers to the chorus of the album's title track, "Elegantly Wasted." No one realized exactly what Michael had done until six months later in Chicago, while Andrew and Michael were doing press at a radio station. I don't think I did a very good job of them today,'" Andrew recalls. "He said, 'Man, don't worry, you don't need to stay, I just want to rerecord some background vocals. Michael left the pub and returned to the studio, where he ran into Andrew, who was off to bed. No punches were thrown, but the incident put an end to the night. The next day, photos of Liam and Bono nose-to-nose appeared in tabloids everywhere and mistakenly reported that the two nearly came to blows. And Bono got between them keeping the peace as only he could, until Liam calmed down. Liam garbled a threat, stood up, and got in Michael's face. "We're just trying to have a good time, what the fuck are you doing?". "Hey, man, why don't you shut up and sit down, you're being a fucking asshole," he said. As he's wont to do, Liam grew incomprehensible, belligerent, and very, very loud. The three front men sat down, drank freely, and as the night wore on, young master Gallagher became quite intolerable. When the notorious brats arrived at the podium, Noel Gallagher looked at Michael and said that a has-been shouldn't be presenting awards to "gonna-bes." Months later, in Dublin, while Andrew and Michael were visiting with their friends U2 and putting the finishing touches on the album demos, Michael met Bono one night at a pub, where Oasis singer Liam Gallagher showed up. equivalent of the Grammys), Michael presented Oasis with Best Album, which they won for (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. In 1996 at England's Brit Awards (the U.K. (it all came out 6 months later in a live interview at a Chicago radio station) If you listen carefully to the chorus throughout the song, you can clearly hear Michael singing the "OaSIS" part of the phrase.I found this article and this is VERY interesting. No one knew that he was adding the phrase "I'm better than Oasis" instead of "I'm Elegantly Wasted". Michael immediately returned to the studio (alone) & w/the engineer added layers to the chorus. of Oasis at a pub in Dublin where Michael was having drinks with Bono. ![]() The book tells of how the covert message within the chorus was added right after the altercation Michael H. ![]() It was written with reference to Michael Hutchence & his stuggles w/Paula Yates & the trappings of fame. Dianna from Los Angeles, CaI've read the INXS Story to Story autobiography as well which talks a little about this song.Dusk Blackman from Albany, Georgia (u.s.a.)"Elegantly Wasted" is a real turn on! And Michael is the mastermind of the groove behind the song.
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