I Was Made for Lovin' You

May 23, 1979

I Was Made for Lovin 'You is a song by American hard rock band Kiss. It was in the second half of 1979 in some countries for number 1 hit and came in many other countries in the top ten. The decoupled from the album Dynasty Single Award Germany with gold.

Genesis

Kiss had recorded in the 1970s, relatively constant albums in their typical hard rock style. In 1979, she departed thereof for the first time from her published on May 23, seventh studio LP Dynasty. Background was the former disco wave, which until 1979 dominated the wide taste in music and the music market by 1976.

I Was Made for Lovin 'You is the opening song from Dynasty. Music and lyrics are mostly provided by singer and rhythm guitarist Paul Stanley, who sang the song, Desmond Child and Vini Poncia. Ace Frehley Gene Simmons replaced as bassist during the recording of the piece. Even the short time later retired Peter Criss was already no longer present at the studio recordings. Instead of him, Anton Fig played the drums.

Achievements

Was the great parts of the music sector dominant wave disco owed ​​- I Was Made for Lovin 'You was the most internationally successful song of the band, although, or perhaps because he did not meet their typical sound, but - even more than all the other pieces on the album. In Canada, it reached number one and received the Gold status. In the Netherlands and in New Zealand the song thus not reached also number 1 in Australia, Switzerland, France and Germany, it took second place in Austria space 6, in Norway 10th place in the United States came it at No. 11 and in the top ten, but received Gold status. In the UK, the song reached number 50

Was in Germany I Was Made for Lovin 'You from 28 July 1979 to November 16, 1979 a total of 16 weeks in the Top Ten. The highest chart position with room 2 reached the play on 8 September 1979 for four weeks. This chart position was the band - despite a number of other top ten hits and great commercial success - obtain in Germany with any other song. The group was already established at the time and belonged to the top of the international rock music for years, was I Was Made for Lovin 'You, but to an even wider audience of different ages.

Maxi - Singles

I Was Made for Loving You was released before the album's release Dynasty as a maxi-single. This was offered as "Special Remix" and had a length of 7:54 minutes. On the back of the title was charisma. In addition, the remix version was from I Was Made for Loving You brought out on a single sided maxi-single for the radio. Another maxi-single, this time with Hard Times on the B - side, was released in Germany, on her was not the remix, but the album version ( 4:29 ) of the song.

Cover versions

The song was often gecovert. The Finnish band Eläkeläiset coverte the song as humppa version with Finnish text under the title Dementikon keppihumppa. It also inspired Hank Sherman while writing the song Devil Eyes, which was released in 1982 on the first EP of the band Mercyful Fate, while their singer King Diamond in I Was Made for Lovin 'You see the beginning of the descent of Kiss. The German band The doctors took over parts of I Was Made for Lovin the duo K2 calls ' You in their version of Kiss' Unholy, as in the chorus of the mountain.

The Norwegian musician Maria Mena had taken up a version of the song for her album Cause and Effect 2008. She published I Was Made for Loving You 2009 single that was number 20 in Switzerland. 2010, the piece entitled Si l' on s'aimait, si, taken by the French charity band Les Enfoirés several weeks was placed in the French, Belgian and Canadian charts.

Quotes

• " This song hit all over the world like a bomb. At the time Disco Music was very popular, and I thought to myself! , Such writing music is a no brainer ' I wrote it actually for fun, but at the same time it was also a challenge for me. [ ... ] The song was so out after a certain scheme. I thought, 'I used everything from the dancing area and all the sound effects ' It was as if we would want to prove to ourselves that it is easy to write a hit when analyzing only one song and take apart. . [ ... ] However, we ended up with just one song from this album our biggest international hit. The album marked a change in direction. [ ... ] "(Paul Stanley )
• "I mean, I Was Made for Lovin 'You' was a worldwide smash hit, but he was not like Kiss, because he has not embodied our true identity. " (Gene Simmons )
• " The first piece that Paul and I had written, I Was Made for Lovin 'You'. The song paved the way for a new style of music, a combination of dance music with rock. " ( Desmond Child )
• " When she with, I Was Made for Lovin 'You' arrived, the first verse was already finished. I wrote the chorus to fade away and let the songs in the tradition of the Brill Building. " ( Vini Poncia )

Reviews

• Pop said in 1979: Besides the usual rude Rock'n'Rollern the Kisser now toying with the disco train ( overheard in the title "I Was Made for Lovin 'You), whereby the successful balancing act even as despisers of " standard dance music " to be congratulated.
• Popfoto 1979 said: You seem to have discovered the charm of beautiful melodies and catchy choruses and are now trying to refine their hard rock with it. Here, even a surprisingly good hit single has dropped: "I Was Made for Lovin 'You. "
• Hammer said in 2003: The smash-hit "I Was Made for Lovin 'You " became a disco hit and is still one of the classics of rock history.
• Taz.de meant 2008: This is not only the biggest selling single of the band, it is also one of the few truly successful flirtation between disco and rock.
• Baltic Zeitung.de said in 2009: It was the time of "I Was Made For Lovin 'You " (1979), were carried away as Kiss from the disco sound and smooth landed a danceable worldwide hit.