Songfacts®:

• This mostly spoken-word track was aimed at the New York City clubs that played house music, which was big and getting bigger in 1988. Most songs in the genre were uptempo, but "Seduction" slowed it down while keeping the beat, giving DJs the equivalent of a dance ballad to mix things up.
  
  The house scene in the clubs was very sensual, and so is this song. It's all about giving in to seduction, which can be both dangerous and exhilarating.
• This song is the creation of producers Robert Clivillés and David Cole. There was no actual group when they put the song together; they used a vocalist named Carol Cooper and made the beats themselves. They had to list an artist on the track, so they simply named the "group" Seduction, same as the song. Issued as a 12-inch single, it did fairly well in the clubs.
  
  Clivillés and Cole released another single under the Seduction banner in 1989: "(You're My One and Only) True Love." This one was a freestyle track with lead vocals by Martha Wash, who wasn't credited. They got Wash's vocals from a demo session they did with her, for which she was paid a flat fee. They thought the song might get some attention in clubs, but it crossed over to radio and became a hit, climbing to #23. With a hit on their hands, Clivillés and Cole needed an actual artist to perform and promote the song, so they hired three singers to be Seduction (they could have made it a solo act, as there is only one lead vocalist on the song, but they thought a multi-racial trio would be more marketable) and cut an entire album, Nothing Matters Without Love. They included the song "Seduction" on the album, but re-named it "Seduction's Theme." The new girls sang on the other seven tracks, which included the hits "Two To Make It Right" and "Heartbeat."
  
  As for Martha Wash, she and David Cole knew each other from her time in The Weather Girls ("It's Raining Men") and kept working together. She was also the uncredited voice on another Clivillés and Cole project: "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" by C+C Music Factory. She took legal action after that one.