I Was Made for Lovin' You

By 1979, Kiss was riding the peak of its mid-decade fame but facing pressure from producers to move toward a more commercial sound. According to legend, the band members responded by arguing that lucrative disco songs could be written by anyone in a short time frame, and a bet was made. Paul Stanley later confirmed it was a conscious effort on his part to prove how easy it was to write and record a hit disco song, and the result was "I Was Made for Lovin' You," the leadoff track on the album Dynasty.

Stanley co-wrote the song with Desmond Child and Vini Poncia, drawing heavily from the disco style popular in late-1970s United States. Child said he and Stanley wrote the verses together in an hour at SIR Studios, while the Motown-influenced chorus was penned by Stanley and Poncia after Child had left the studio. Although Peter Criss appeared in the video and on the album cover, he did not play on the track; session drummer Anton Fig took his place on most of Dynasty because Poncia had deemed Criss unfit to play. Stanley played rhythm guitar, Ace Frehley provided the solo, and rumors that Gene Simmons did not play bass were incorrect.

Released as a single in 1979, the song reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went gold in the US on August 16 that year. It topped charts in Canada, New Zealand, France and the Netherlands. The music video was filmed on June 20, 1979, at the Savannah Civic Center in Georgia, directed by John Goodhue.