"Obsession" is a 1983 song by Holly Knight and Michael Des Barres, covered in 1984 by American synth-pop band Animotion.

This version was played in the 1983 film A Night in Heaven, during a scene in which Christopher Atkins bumps and grinds in Lesley Ann Warren's face in sync with the rhythm of the song.

[citation needed] The song has been used as the opening theme for the internationally syndicated Canadian program FT - FashionTelevision since it premiered in 1986.

The movie, about a troubling incident in the past of a successful novelist, used the song throughout to highlight the themes of jealousy, envy, and most obviously obsession.

[7] The WWE (formerly World Wrestling Federation) is using the song again as its introduction theme for the returning Saturday Night's Main Event scheduled to air via simulcast on NBC and Peacock December 14, 2024.

[8][9] The music video features the Animotion band members—focusing mostly on the two lead singers, Bill Wadhams and Astrid Plane—dressed in various costumes (such as Mark Antony and Cleopatra) while lip-syncing and dancing to the song next to a swimming pool and inside a luxury house in the Hollywood neighborhood.

[36] Alex Roginski of the Sydney Morning Herald noted that the song "thumps out analog synth and the glittering chord progressions of a 1980s nightclub".

Harry Rubenstein of The Jerusalem Post felt that the group added nothing new to the track and instead stuck to a "straight up" cover, which he considered disappointing.

[43] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian felt that the Sugababes' version "sands off the edges rather than amps up the lunacy", and concluded: "what's left is like 1980s night at karaoke".

Music thought that the cover was even better than the original, and appreciated the "gorgeous, perfumed menace on the song's subject" which she felt resembled Sin City's "gun-toting Valkyrie-hookers".

[46] Simon Price of The Independent praised the song as "instant pop",[39] and a writer from The Liverpool Daily Post & Echo considered it a "brilliantly seductive reworking" of the original.

[49] "Obsession" was also included in the set list for their 2007 tour in support of Overloaded: The Singles Collection, the group's 2006 greatest hits album.