| The Reason Why | |
| Cover: | Lorenzo Fragola - The Reason Why - Front cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Lorenzo Fragola |
| Album: | Lorenzo Fragola |
| Released: | 5 December 2014 |
| Genre: | Pop |
| Length: | 3:02 |
| Label: | Sony Music Italy |
| Producer: | Fausto Cogliati |
| Next Title: | Siamo uguali |
| Next Year: | 2015 |
"The Reason Why" is a song by Italian singer-songwriter Lorenzo Fragola, released as his debut single on 5 December 2014, during the week preceding the final of the eight season of Italian talent show X Factor, which was won by Fragola himself.
The song was written by Fragola with Michelle Lily Popovic and Fausto Cogliati. The latter also served as the song's producer.[1]
Fragola started composing the song a few years before it was completed, during a summer holiday when some friends asked him to write a song as a joke while they played the guitar together. He later continued to work on the track, and he chose to perform it during the auditions for the eighth series of X Factor.[2] [3] On 4 December 2016, during the semi-final of the show, each contestant was required to perform a previously unreleased track, and Fragola chose to perform "The Reason Why".[4] The following day, the song was released as a single, together with the other contestant's entries.[1] "The Reason Why" later allowed Fragola to win the X Factor series, on 11 December 2014.[5]
Writing for Italian magazine Panorama, Gianni Poglio described "The Reason Why", as a "pop song written to receive airplay, incisive, immediate, without being trivial".[6] Critics including Alessandro Alicandri and la Repubblicas Anna Puricella also compared the song's sound to the work of British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.[7] [8]
| Region | Date | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Italy[9] [10] | 5 December 2014 | Airplay |
| Digital download | ||