Songfacts®:

• Who wants to be lonely? No one. That's the play Paul Stanley of Kiss makes in this song as he tries to score some time with the lady. It's a bombastic rocker from the front end of Kiss' no-makeup era, which lasted until 1996.
• Paul Stanley wrote this song with Desmond Child and Jean Beauvoir. Child was on his way to becoming one of the top songwriters of the decade, with hits for Bon Jovi ("Livin' On A Prayer"), Aerosmith ("Dude (Looks Like A Lady)") and Joan Jett ("I Hate Myself For Loving You"). Beauvoir was in a band called the Plasmatics, which opened some shows for Kiss in 1983.
  
  Child, who started writing with Stanley in 1979 on the Kiss hit "I Was Made For Lovin' You," told Songfacts it's one of the more underrated songs in the Kiss katalog.
• "Who Wants To Be Lonely" is part of the 1985 Kiss album Asylum. It wasn't released as a single but did get a music video. Bruce Kulick, who had recently joined the band, was the lead guitarist.
• The music video is filled with striking images of wet women in leather, with Paul Stanley dressed like a pastel warrior. It was directed by David Mallet, one of the first high-impact music video directors. He was more concerned with interesting visuals than with storyline, which was a good fit for Kiss. Other videos Mallet directed include "Rock of Ages" by Def Leppard and "Ashes To Ashes" by David Bowie.