The Reason (song)

Single infobox
Name = The Reason


Artist = Hoobastank
from Album = The Reason
Released = June 08, 2004
Format = CD
Genre = Post-grunge
Power ballad
Length = 3:53
Label = Island
Writer =
Last single = "Out of Control" (2000)
This single = "The Reason" (2000)
Next single = "Same Direction" (2000) "The Reason" is the hit 2004 single by the modern rock band Hoobastank, off their album "The Reason". The song is Hoobastank's most commercially successful single, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks. It was nominated for the Song of the Year on the 47th Grammy Awards. It was also a transatlantic hit, peaking at #12 on the UK Singles Chart."The Reason" also won the MTV Asia VMA award for best rock video and was covered by many artists, including singer Tom Jones.

The song appears on the video game "Karaoke Revolution Volume 3".

Music video

In "The Reason," the band members stage a diversion so they can carry out the elaborate theft of a ruby gem from a pawnshop, but those facts are only clear after enough of the action unfolds, because nothing is as it seems. In the beginning of the video, a girl gets hit by a car and then turns out to be an accessory to the crime. After the "accident", while everyone's attention is diverted, the band members execute the heist. The viewer then realizes that she was in on the operation, as she gets up and rides off with an accomplice on a motorcycle at the end. The presumed owner of the pawnshop displays a look of realization, and the song ends with the band admiring their new acquisition, holding it up to the light and projecting red light-rays onto the ceiling. The accident "victim" is also present. They then hear police sirens from above, and the video fades out.

Their video Same Direction is intended as both a sequel and a prequel to the video for The Reason and further details the band member's roles, as well as shows the trouble they bring down on themselves from law enforcement.

Chart performance

External links

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjC9k7U0Wzc Video]