PAUL STANLEY DECLARES THAT, “I WAS MADE FOR LOVIN’ YOU,” IS KISS’ BIGGEST SONG OF ALL TIME

Yesterday (8/26/25), KISS frontman Paul Stanley, tweeted the following on his X account:

“THE BIGGEST KISS SONG OF ALL TIME IS… I Was Made for Lovin’ You with 1.3 BILLION total streams on Spotify as of late August and approximately 850 THOUSAND daily streams!! Amazing and THANK YOU!”

According to blabbermouth.net, although I Was Made For Lovin’ You was a huge chart success for KISS 40 years ago, it was maligned by many of the group’s fans who didn’t appreciate the track’s disco beat…

…In 2018, [KISS bassist/vocalist Gene] Simmons said that he hated performing I Was Made For Lovin’ You because he is forced to sing like his grandmother. Asked in an interview with OK! magazine to name a song that he wasn’t initially crazy about that ended up becoming a hit, Simmons said,”…’ I hate playing that song to [this] day. Stadiums full of people jump up and down like biblical locusts — they go nuts — with tattoos and grills on… ‘Ahhhh!’ They’re all jumping up and down, and I’m going, ‘Do, do, do, do, do, do… Kill me now.’ Still — still to this day I hate that song.”

After the female interviewer pressed him on whether the song ever grew on him after performing it for the last four decades, he said, “Well, how about you sing that song? You’re a girl. I wanna sing guy stuff.”

Stanley reportedly stated back in 2017 that the song’s success was, “a double-edged sword, because it became such a massive hit but it was also so contrary and contradictory to what we had done before.” He added: “The funniest thing is when we do festivals sometimes in Europe where it’s very much… the bands are quite heavy, well, when we do an encore of I Was Made For Lovin’ You, you suddenly have all these people with spikes in their eyeballs or bones through their noses singing along. So it’s a song that seems to transcend everything — although it went through a period, certainly, of a big backlash against it.”