Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin' You | Singer Reacts & Musician Analysis 

Story has it that the lighted guitar played by Ace weighed 42 lbs ... over40 years ago ... different technology.

Funny story: the main reason they released this song was because when they started, they were the very first act signed to a new label called Casablanca. Cut to about 5 years later, and not only is KISS one of the hottest acts in the rock world with a bunch of platinum albums, but Casablanca Records is also now the absolute Mecca for disco music in the US. Donna Summer, Cher, Village People, Lipps Inc, even legit funk acts like Parliament, they all signed to Casablanca. They used their huge disco cache to convince KISS (a pure arena rock act) to put a disco track on their next album, and it became one of their biggest-charting songs.

Gene Simmons (The Demon) hates this song, performing it as well. He tells the story of when Paul was running the lyrics past him and he was into it until Paul got to the Do do do part. Gene wanted nothing to do with it. He still did anyway.

Kiss's "Sure Know Something" has a forward bass line, and an accessible sound. "I Want You" is a cool super 70s cut from Kiss, with a couple flavorful guitar solos, and great tom drum sounds

Kiss started my rock journey when I was young ..This song is awesome

From wikipedia: ""I Was Made for Lovin' You" draws heavily from the disco style that was popular in late-1970s United States. According to legend, the members of the band were in conflict with their producers, who wanted the band to shift to a more commercial sound. In response, the band argued that lucrative disco songs could be written by anyone in a short time frame. The story goes that the song's demo was completed in mere hours after the bet."

Yes! My 2nd all-time fave rock band! Many purists diss them for doing a disco-flavored song; however, lead singer Paul Stanley was challenged that he couldn't write disco music. He wrote this song in less than an hour. Drummer Peter Criss is recognized as one of the great drummers in rock, so learning from him is a good idea. Thanks for your reaction.

Nobody can take away what Paul Stanley did with Kiss. He was a great singer , no matter what anyone think of Kiss. HE was a great singer!

Yay! More please! Check out any one or preferably all of the three Midnight Special clips from 1975! THAT'S classic KISS! :)

Oh my golden childhood there!

The story I've heard about making this song was that Paul Stanley (who sings this one) wrote it because he was told by someone from the record label Kiss was signed with that nobody wanted to hear Kiss do a disco tune; that said, I also heard a version where Paul made the comment that disco was so simple that anybody could whip up a tune in no time flat - so he then had to back up his claim. Either way, it's a massive departure from the driving rock which the band is best noted for.

One more good reaction. If you want any suggestions of their songs to react to, here they are: "Lick it up" (Kiss without masks for the 1st time); "All Hell's breakin' loose"; "Heaven's on fire"; "I love it loud"; "Rock and Roll All Nite"; and the beautiful ballad "Forever".

Love this disco era Kiss vibe...they do great rock music too.

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Going to see them Nov 8th in Vancouver BC Canada 🇨🇦.

My favorite 4 bar guitar solo.

You Wanted the BEST... You Got the BEST !!! *...ROCK* *ON,* *Sister* 👍🤟

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PLEASE check out the video for "Sure Know Something' next! It was recorded/filmed on the same day as this video was,and then go back and watch and react to more earlier 70's era live KISS performances,especially from 1976-1978 during KISS's classic glory years.

Wow, another reaction to a metal band..... Love this😊❤️

This is considered to be Disco by KISS, One Disco song and Yes it becomes a HIT. But really now, It's not a bad song and I even danced to it in a disco back in the 70's, But I really like there harder music. I even saw them in concert in 1977. No whip, supposed to be Laser Beam.

you might like their 1985 song "Tears are falling" and you can see them out of make up and armor in that one.

I had to laugh as she needed 5 secs to process that love sentence "in the darknes theres so much I wanna do.." loool :D

MILLIE YOU ARE SO PRETTY

Classic song of Kiss

Legendary group

Awesome reaction video for an awesome song. Lol, I loved your reaction to "the whips". As an Ace fan, I probably have a bias. But you were asking whose make-up you should wear. You would look awesome in Ace's. The silver. The white. The black. Great combination for face make-up. Please do a reaction video for 'Detroit Rock City' or 'I Love It Loud' (with the original lineup). Thx!

Do another 'Disco' song by KISS titled; God of Thunder ... Live - 1976 or 1977.

Kiss was into making money & really didn't care how they made it. They were open about it & made no apologies for it. Gene Simmons stated this in the rockumentary " Heavy, the Story of Metal" from VH1. It can be found on RU-vid now in the 4 individual parts. If you like heavy metal & want to know it's history, it's a must watch!

Kiss was mostly in the genre of glam rock which included some elements of disco and other types of rock music.

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the song with which they proved that they are not afraid of experiments or the anger of fans who hate disco! ❤superhit!

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That whip sound is the drummer hitting the rim

This is a great disco era song, KISS keeping up with the times.

LOVE KISSSSS!!!!!!

In the movie Detroit Rock City a girl jokes about Kiss doing a disco song because Disco was so popular and the Kiss fans were adamant it would never happen

Saw Kiss in 70's. Awesome

luv ur stuff. and ur accent.. plus ur cute. :)

seen them in concert , it was epic. you need to check out the song Beth by kiss

Yes my top 10 favorite band of all time ....💋

Great reaction kiss has alot of great songs you should checkout world without heros, firehouse, strutter, Duce, Beth, black Diamond, hotter then hell, this is just some that came yo mind right away

this was filmed in Las Vegas in 1959, after Simmons & Stanley Raided Zsa Zsa Gabor's closet and busbyed and berkeleyed themselves to somewhere south of needles. Ca

Did you know a friend of Paul Stanley made a bet that he couldn't make a song out of this kind Disco music I guess Paul Stanley won the bet because it became a 1 number hit everywhere I still listen to this song considering the music style KISS made it work

The best rock song of all time

So many went n’ cut a disco song back then. Rod Stewart with “Do ya think I’m sexy” and The Stones had “Miss You” and so on

The real fun is this song was written on a bet and became a legendary hit.

When KISS did this song they were trying to impress the peers and the critics, and actually they weren't really a band at that point, they were just four guys running a muck. It was one member thinking he knew what was best for the band. It wasn't to long afterwards that the original band seen in this video started to break up and wouldn't reunite until 1995 on MTV Unplugged.

Special band no doubt, timeless!

Millie te amo

Their one foray into disco, like Rod Stewart doing the disco song "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" Check out "I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night".

i can totally imagine you in spaceman ( ace frehley ) face paint! haha, big love to all people :)

rock disco années 80 ,la bonne époque musicale 😊😊👍👍

Kiss - Calling Dr. Love Kiss - Psycho Circus

i love your persona

Before Kiss ,Gene and Paul were a lounge act , they sang all sorts of music.

Another great piece of Rock history, Gorgeous Millie

Listen to The Breeders, not even on the channel just listen to them, trust me Millie, this is great advice, listen to huffer, divine hammer and cannonball, I'm sharing wisdom with you

My start as a Metalhead was 1980 with KISS

Listen to there song BETH!!!!!

Try another KISS song. God of Thunder. Please use the one from the album Destroyer

This song is an outlier from the typical KISS songs. (Apparently they did more disco songs, but I haven't heard them yet).There were many fans who hated the song and others who loved it. I had no issues w/ it. It's a good song. Love it. Anyway, check out some classic KISS rock songs and their ballads too (I love those. Start w/ Beth). Ace Frehley was known for his unique guitars that lit up and had pyrotechnics (fire, smoke, etc.) going on while playing.

I would love your analysis of Kiss rock the nation version of unholy.

That's not a whip you're hearing, even though it sounds like it. Peter Criss is striking his wooden drumsticks against the aluminum framework for one of the drums, and there's a microphone set up to pick up the sound.

🤣🤣😅 You are right! This is a DISCO song! --Me and all Kiss fans , thougt : "This was the way to go" I was wrong! After the "Dynasty" record , I lost interest : There were so many other bands coming up , at that time... 🙂

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Kiss "Sure know something"

This song was co-written by Desmond Child.

This was their only "Disco" Song, co-written by Paul Stanley (Starchild). Gene Simmons (the Demon) Hates this Song. The Light up Guitar and battery pack weighed over 40 lbs. (18 Kilos). For a Soft KISS Ballad, Peter Criss (the Cat) co-wrote and sang "Beth". It's still performed onstage today by whomever the Band's current drummer is. WORTH a listen. THERE'S A RU-vid VIDEO Where Gene shows you how to put on the "Demon" Makeup... Using his Daughter (Sophie) as the Model!

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As a teenage kid growing up in the 70's Kiss lost all remaining cred they had left after they did this one

When Kiss was signed to Casablanca Records in 1974, their label head Neil Bogart used to make bubblegum pop records on his previous label... Besides Kiss, he signed mostly funk and disco artists like Parliament Funkadelic and Donna Summer... but Kiss was his first band to break big commercially in 1975. As disco music took off in 1976/ '77... Casablanca Records became the premiere disco label and sold millions of records by the late 70's. By 1978, Kiss was going through a bit of crisis as drugs and egos were clashing between the 4 members... A Kiss movie was rather poorly received and Ace Frehley (lead guitar) and Peter Criss (drums) wanted to leave Kiss... A compromise was reached - all 4 members would record solo albums under complete creative control, and they would each be released w/ the Kiss logo... The records sold well - over half million each, but Neil Bogart pressed 1 million copies of each record to distributors... So, out of 4 million pressed, nearly 2 miillion records were returned unsold... It was a huge financial setback. In the meantime, Paul Stanley was partying in Studio 54 enjoying the disco scene... Gene Simmons was trying to get his own record label going, and dating Cher in his personal life... Ace and Peter were drowning in alcohol and addictions by that point. Finally, the 4 members decided to work on a new Kiss album in 1979... Ace Frehley demanded more songs on the record, and Peter Criss demanded that his solo album producer Vini Poncia do the album. They felt like disco was commercially huge, so that was the road to take... Ace did not like that direction and did a rocking cover of the Rolling Stones' "2000 Man"... as well as 2 of his songs. Kiss rehearsed the album 'Dynasty', but when Peter Criss came in the studio to do the drums, he couldn't play proficiently... the producer sent Criss home and had session drummer Anton Fig play on the record (Criss played on his 1 song - "Dirty livin' ") even if Peter Criss was on the cover and in music videos... Apparently, Criss played so badly on tour in '79 that he was excluded from the next Kiss disco album 'Unmasked' in 1980 (Anton Fig played all the drums on that record). Eric Carr (drums) did the 1980 tour... When Kiss went on tour in 1979, they discovered that they had become family entertainment... Kiss was now dressed in capes and colorful sequins and had alienated their hardcore rock fans. As a result, their shows were no longer selling out in the US even though Kiss were huge overseas.

Hi Millie can I suggest a band for you the jam they are a UK band from the early 80"s

Yes, usually Kiss is about hard rock - not all that brutal though, like many think who only know them from their makeup 🙂 But it's always very catchy, and easy to appreciate. Their 70s makeup era is a hard rock mixture of rock'n'roll, glam and pop. Between 1983-96, they performed without makeup and became more of a hair metal band. Didn't matter much, still brilliant. Through all eras, the leaders and mainstays of the band has been Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons. Paul is the "Starchild", with the unbelievable soulful vocals and who also plays rhythm guitar. (Check out the songs from the 1987 "Crazy nights" album to find out where he peaked as a singer. The notes he hit are absolutely unbelievable.) Gene is the "demon" on bass and lead vocals on certain songs - mainly the ones he himself has written. The other two you see here are lead guitarist Ace Frehley, who was and is very popular with the fans but his time(s) in the band have been very problematic, mainly due to his alcoholism. He originally left in 1982. Drummer Peter Criss is actually not the one you hear playing drums on this song. His playing had at this poiint deteriorated horribly, due to cocaine abuse among other things, and the band secretly let Ace's friend Anton Fig play drums on all but one song in total on their two 1979-1980 albums. In 1980, Criss left more or less willingly. Both he and Ace have returned later so the band could make nostalgia money, but at this point it's very unlikely that any of them will ever play with Kiss again. Even if Kiss do not split up after their next tour, as they have announced that they will. "I was made for loving you" exists mainly because Paul Stanley loved disco dancing in the late 70s. Gene on the other hand is a purist rocker and doesn't like the song, even though it's his basslline that mainly drives it. Gene does not refuse to play it. however - he's way to smart to not play a song that he knows is popular with the fans, and this is arguably their biggest hits ever. Even if - or maybe that's just the reason - it is also hated by other fans, who like Gene are rock purists.

I think if you want to paint your like one of them it should be the drummer (the cat)

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Paul Stanley vocal, Ace Frahley guitar and i forgotten ...😂

Ah the bass. Not played by Gene but played by Paul Stanley. Peter Criss only played drums on one song. KISS were pretty fractured by this point.

KISS WAS WELL BEYOND ROCK N ROLL..AND POP CULTURE...THEY ARE A STAPLE

There was a real culture war going on between rock and disco fans at the time of this song's release. KISS took a lot of flack from their fans and their detractors for selling out to disco. This was merely the beginning of a decades long sell out/off.

React to kiss rock and roll all night that's what kiss really sounds like

Kissco!

This was meant as a joke. Paul Stanley wanted to prove how easy it is to write a disco song, so this song is an outlier for Kiss. This is one of the largest catalogs in music, so..... From seventies glam rock to eighties melodic 'hair' metal, with different guitarist and drummer, to the hybrid of the nineties and two thousands. The five no make up albums from eighty-three to ninety, plus the last make up album just before it are by far the best written, played, and produced albums.

In the mid-late 70's when KISS was huge, I was in Jr. High and everyone was praising them, I just could not get into them. I just could not get into all the kabuki make-up and costumes that they wore and they theatrics like Gene Simmons spitting blood. But I did like some of their songs like this one. Probably my favorite of theirs is "Beth".

Morning sunshine I met Paul and Gene ❤😮love and besitos

This comment has nothing to do witk kiss. Based on your liking for Floyd's Great Gig in the Sky, I suggest that you react to Eivør's "Trodlabundin" - the version performed halfway up the side of a Norwegian fjord - and/or Falling Free - the live version from Torshavn. She's from the Faroe Isles and has a voice like nothing I've heard for years (if ever). The two songs are quite different but equally captivating/mesmerising.

If you like whips, you need to react to "Whip It" by Devo! 🙃

You're missing a reaction to 2021 in a song by Inutilismo. You will fall in love. The guy sings, plays everything in the rock version of the best songs of the year.

Milli! I Love You!! This is a great song in its own right, but... , not representative of KISS. It was a one-off venture into Disco. To get a better feel for KISS and what they're all about, I would try **DETROIT ROCK CITY (Live)** Cheers!

If you want a good live performance to react to of them playing rock, I recommend any or all of these 3 songs they sang in 1975 on The Midnight Special: She, Deuce and Black Diamond.🎸

Yes this is disco, because as i remember the story goes someone told Paul that making a disco hit was hard. so they did this song to show it wasn't that hard. THe band is rock n roll though. this is a one off.

You should here the song she by kiss and you here want kiss sond like Hoss

Hello beautiful Millie Frog Leap Studios did a cover of this song which should be reacted to on this awesome channel.

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Clown rock? ..Oh, monster rock.

Crazy thing about the Disco beat is that it is a real endurance test for drummers. There's not a lot of difficulty in the technicality involved, but it really presses the drummer to play consistently and to keep their volume in line and to essentially be a dancing BackBeat machine. It's not something that is as easy as it sounds because most rumors will have a tendency to drift B in their beat back and forth and so I do think of disco as an good test of a drummers sense of timing and it can shape their discipline when it comes to playing in a very reliable manner. It is a different kind of precision as opposed to stay the brilliant Neil Peart who was able to play like three different people at the same time and still keep his Vibe and his sense of order.

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If you think Paul Stanley could hit high notes, that's nothing compared to what Barry Gibb of the BeeGees could do. Listen to their song - Too Much Heaven sometime. Good review too!

One of the two songs by that band I like. Otherwise they could be playing my basement, I'd go to a movie.

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