When the critical world looks at KISS, they see adults pretending to be characters they are not, projecting unsophisticated music about fantasy emotions, presented as a means of earning revenue. What they do not see is that this is how almost all rock music would appear to an alien. It is inside the genre’s very DNA, all the way back to Elvis. So KISS is not a cheaper, exploitive translation of rock. KISS is the living definition of rock’s electrifying unreality, presented with absolute transparency. And the many rational, intelligent people who disagree with that are simply wrong (not about
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