Sorry, Hoobastank, but you’re just not that good.


It can’t be easy being a one-hit wonder, especially if your hit song is a bit shit. This is a problem that the band Hoobastank has had to deal with their entire career. Apart from their terrible name, the California group has been forced to spend every year since 2003 contending with the fact that their biggest hit, the thing they will be known for beyond everything else, is the song “The Reason.”



While one hit song is better than no hit songs, you can tell that the fact that this track is their big break — and that it’s really not that great of a song — is starting to wear on them. Case in point: This recent performance in which the lead singer threw to the crowd to sing the verse, only to have them not really reciprocate.


I think his reaction speaks for itself.