Hoobastank | "The Reason" (Video)

"The Reason" is the hit 2004 single by the modern rock band Hoobastank, off their 2nd album "The Reason". Hoobastank formed in 1994 in California, with singer Doug Robb, guitarist Dan Estrin, drummer Chris Hesse, and original bassist Markku Lappalainen. The song is Hoobastank's most commercially successful single, peaking at #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks, and they have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

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.