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KISS’ PAUL STANLEY ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM BUT FANS OUTRAGED FOR SOME REASON

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KISS frontman Paul Stanley shared a recent studio photo on his verified Instagram and revealed that he’s working for a new project.

Stanley said that they are recording a new Soul Station album which will mix classic old tunes with the new one.

Here is his statement:

“SOUL STATION ALBUM VOCALS yesterday. Classic old tunes and new. This is really AWESOME.”

mickw85_wyld_ryde_ commented:

“With no disrespect intended…There’s no market for a new KISS album but there is for this? 😕”

3robert62 shared his opinion:

“No kiss album will never match anything as good as 70s kiss😂🤷🏻‍♂️”

qfinch85 also commented:

“What a stupid thing to say. Revenge from a writing and talent level destroyed 70s kiss. Hell carnival of souls was more talented than 70s KISS. But if you’re not a musician then I guess your album sales to the popular crowd overshadows logic.”

You can see the photo below:

Gene Simmons says Pop music is ‘handcuffed by the industry’

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It’s not just rock music that may be “finally dead,” KISS magnate Gene Simmons theorized during a rundown of his favorite songs for MusicRadar last week, but pop as well. The musician asserted Friday (May 10) that the more mainstream side of music is governed by an industry that “sets the rules” and dictates how songs should sound, effectively rendering artists “handcuffed” to such restrictions.

While identifying the Beatles and Little Richard as some of the artists that “blew [his] mind” in his formative years, the KISS bassist and vocalist defended today’s top pop artists while snubbing their business environs.

“These days we have the talent — [Lady] Gaga, Bruno Mars, Adele, all great artists,” Simmons said. “But they’re handcuffed by the industry. The industry sets the rules and says rap has to sound like this; soul has to sound like this; EDM has to sound like this. Fucking pathetic!”

He continued, “I don’t want to sound like one of those miserable, moany guys that says, ‘Man, everything was better back then.’ But when it comes to music… shit, it was so much better! When I heard it, it changed my life forever!”

The recent comments follow Simmons’ frequently dissected takeon the “death of rock”. As he told Esquire in 2014, “Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered. Some brilliance, somewhere, was going to be expressed, and now it won’t, because it’s that much harder to earn a living playing and writing songs. No one will pay you to do it.”

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