{"id":578153,"date":"2023-01-26T01:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T01:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=578153"},"modified":"2023-02-05T01:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T01:25:30","slug":"gene-simmons-kiss-ruled-the-world-by-choosing-not-to-play-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/gene-simmons-kiss-ruled-the-world-by-choosing-not-to-play-the-game","title":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons: Kiss ruled the world by choosing not to play the game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss bassist Gene Simmons says the band&#8217;s secret to becoming huge stars without having a string of chart-topping hits was in deciding &#8220;not to play the game.&#8221; Asked by AXS TV how Kiss achieved everything they did without dominating the top of the singles charts, Simmons says they were more interested in creating a body of work. Simmons says: &#8220;We decided not to play the game. The game of pop groups was to try to figure out those saccharine sweet melodies and choruses that had to do with love and heartbreak and so on, that mom and dad listening to the radio during the day time would find appealing. &#8220;The philosophy was to put together an entire statement, a body of work if you will, as opposed to one song.&#8221; Kiss&#8217; highest charting single in the US was the ballad Beth . Sung by drummer Peter Criss, it peaked at number 7. Asked what he loves most about being in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss bassist Gene Simmons says the band&#8217;s path to mega success without a string of number 1 singles was all part of the plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}