"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.

He later continued to work on the track, and he chose to perform it during the auditions for the eighth series of X Factor.

[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 Repubblica's Anna Puricella also compared the song's sound to the work of British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.