{"id":113377,"date":"2025-08-02T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113377\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T16:09:09","slug":"paul-stanley-recalls-the-cruel-question-that-made-kiss-unmask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/113377\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Stanley Recalls the Cruel Question That Made Kiss Unmask"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Stanley<\/a> said a cruel moment in a press interview triggered Kiss<\/a>\u2019 decision to take off their masks<\/a> in 1983.<\/p>\n

The band, who were experiencing a slump in popularity as genres changed around them, responded by abandoning the characters and costumes they\u2019d been using for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n

They changed back in 1996<\/a>, moving on from a period that Stanley admitted had seen them involved in some low-quality moments \u2013 but also saw some of their biggest hits including \u201cCrazy Crazy Nights\u201d and \u201cLick It Up.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Doc McGhee Told Kiss: \u2018Call Me When You Put the Makeup Back On\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, the clothes got ridiculous,\u201d the guitarist told Billy Corgan<\/a> in a recent episode of the Smashing Pumpkins<\/a> leader\u2019s The Magnificent Ones podcast (video below). \u201cWe looked like we got dressed in the dark in a costume store! \u2018What do you think my feather earrings?\u2019 \u2018Oh, good \u2013 goes with your eye makeup!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cBut it was a way for us to continue [and] I wanted the band to continue. \u2026 [N]obody can tell me when this band is over. And I did do interviews with journalists towards the end of the makeup period, where there could be such vitriol [because] somebody has joy in making you squirm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stanley theorized that such negativity came from \u201cpeople angered by how long we had succeeded. He went on to describe what he called the \u201cdeath knell\u201d moment in an interview.<\/p>\n

The Interview Question That Angered Paul Stanley<\/p>\n

The question, he said, was: \u201cHow does it feel to be on the Titanic?\u201d His reaction was: \u201cI\u2019m a human being. How, how could you say that?\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cAnd all I could think was, \u2018Nobody\u2019s going to tell me when this ends\u2026 watch this.\u2019 [Y]ou have to have a reason to continue, and mine was that nobody gets to tell me when it\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stanley accepted: \u201cThere were certainly some missteps that I listen to now and go, \u2018Gee\u2026\u2019 All I can say is that we committed ourselves 100 per cent to everything we did, and believed that we were doing the best we could when we did things.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd some of it is pretty awful!\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch Paul Stanley\u2019s Interview with Billy Corgan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kiss Live Albums Ranked Worst to Best<\/p>\n

You wanted the best, you get the best.. and the rest.<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Matthew Wilkening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Stanley said a cruel moment in a press interview triggered Kiss\u2019 decision to take off their masks…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,975,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-113377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}