Released as the third single from What You Don't Know, "Tell Me Why" continued a successful streak for the group on the Billboard Hot 100 chart when it peaked at #9 in early 1990.

[1] It was Exposé's seventh consecutive top ten hit on the Hot 100, dating back to "Come Go with Me" in April 1987.

[2] The song reached the lower region of the UK Singles Chart, spending one week at #97.

[3] The music video shows the members of Exposé lip-synching the song interspersed with scenes implying urban gang violence.

Lyrics such as Give me a reason for all this senseless crime / We can change it, why they have to die support an ultimate message of appealing to stop these sorts of activities.