{"id":1946,"date":"2025-07-18T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1946\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:19:08","slug":"gene-simmons-reaction-to-seeing-taylor-swift-in-kiss-makeup-to-punk-this-country-star-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1946\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons’ Reaction to Seeing Taylor Swift in KISS Makeup to Punk This Country Star (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gene Simmons’ Reaction to Seeing Taylor Swift in KISS Makeup to Punk This Country Star (Exclusive)<\/a> originally appeared on Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gene Simmons loves a good prank \u2014 especially when it involves fellow musicians.<\/p>\n

The 75-year-old rockstar opened up about what it was like seeing Taylor Swift<\/a>, who was fully decked out in his band\u2019s iconic stage makeup, punk Keith Urban more than 15 years ago while chatting exclusively with Parade ahead of the \u201cKISS Army Storms Vegas\u201d event in Las Vegas in November. The event will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the KISS Army fan club.<\/p>\n

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In 2009, Swift, now 35,\u00a0toured as an opening act for Urban, 57, during the singer’s Escape Together Tour. At a Kansas City stop, she and her band members dressed as\u00a0KISS\u00a0and surprised Urban by coming on stage during his performance of “Kiss a Girl.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire band came out and punked Keith Urban at a show<\/a>, and Taylor was dressed like our original lead guitarist Ace [Frehley], and the whole band was dressed up in KISS<\/a> [makeup],\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people who feel it’s cool,” he adds, saying that the gesture was “appreciated.” He explains, “It’s a nod of the head, because you can’t get me to dress like Boy George!\u201d<\/p>\n

The philanthropist and Rock & Brews Restaurants co-founder goes on to tell Parade that he thinks Swift is \u201cgreat\u201d as both an artist and person.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe’s phenomenal,\u201d he says. \u201cShe started off in country [music], and then just did what she wanted to do, which is go mainstream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans can catch Simmons and his bandmates at the “KISS Army Storms Vegas\u201d event in Las Vegas from Nov. 14-16.<\/p>\n

Related: Rock Icon, 75, Is All Smiles in Rare Appearance To Support Music Documentary<\/a><\/p>\n

Gene Simmons’ Reaction to Seeing Taylor Swift in KISS Makeup to Punk This Country Star (Exclusive)<\/a> first appeared on Parade on Jul 17, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Jul 17, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gene Simmons’ Reaction to Seeing Taylor Swift in KISS Makeup to Punk This Country Star (Exclusive) originally appeared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,2898,2899,2900,2897],"class_list":{"0":"post-1946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-gene-simmons","13":"tag-keith-urban","14":"tag-kiss-army","15":"tag-taylor-swift"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}