White Lies (Vize and Tokio Hotel song) explained

White Lies
Cover:	White Lies Single Art.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	Vize and Tokio Hotel
Album:	2001
Length:	3:03
Label:	Epic Germany Sony Music Germany
Producer:	T. Kaulitz J Vimalavong V Zestovskih

"White Lies" is a single by German EDM duo Vize and German rock band Tokio Hotel, from the latter's upcoming seventh studio album 2001. It was released on 15 January 2021. Two remixes of the song were released later that year; one by German DJ NOØN on 2 April 2021, and the other by German DJ duo HBz on 7 May 2021. "White Lies" was used as the opening theme for Season 16 of Germany's Next Topmodel.

Lyric video

The lyric video contains various environments under a red/blue overlay with the lyrics appearing on the screen.

Music video

The music video stars all members of Tokio Hotel, plus DJ Johannes and Vitali from VIZE. Shot and photographed by Christoph Köstlin and Dennis Dirksen, and directed by Barış Aladağ, the video shows the members of Tokio Hotel and VIZE floating around with their instruments, with Bill singing the song. The colours shift from red to blue, to black, like a rave party setting.

During production of the video, Tokio Hotel shared photos of the band's videoshoot on their official Instagram page.

White Lies Cover Challenge

With the song becoming popular in the social media world, Tokio Hotel started the White Lies Cover Challenge, which is a social media competition where they would ask fans to create their own cover of the song in any genre on video and to submit it to them on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter by 4 April 2021 using the hashtag #WhiteLiesCoverChallenge.

The winning covers would then be used by the band in a fan video version of the song. This was uploaded to their official YouTube account on 15 April 2021.

Charts

Year-end charts

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Position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)^[1]	56
CIS (TopHit)^[2]	73
Germany (Official German Charts)^[3]	50
Russia Airplay (TopHit)^[4]	54
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)^[5]	78

Release history

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Date	Version	Format	Label
Various	15 January 2021	Original	Digital download	Epic	^[6]
	2 April 2021	NOØN remix			^[7]
	7 May 2021	HBz remix			^[8]

External links

• Official lyric video
• Official music video

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ö3-Austria Top40 Single-Jahrescharts 2021. Ö3 Austria Top 40. 2 January 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220101195812/https://oe3.orf.at/charts/stories/3020713/. 1 January 2022.
2. Web site: Top Radio Hits Global Annual Chart – 2021. TopHit. 5 August 2022. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20220805145136/https://tophit.ru/en/best-music-2021. 5 August 2022.
3. Web site: Jahrescharts 2021. GfK Entertainment charts. 15 December 2021.
4. Web site: Top Radio Hits Russia Annual Chart – 2021. TopHit. 5 August 2022. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20220805143945/https://tophit.ru/en/chart/russia/yearly/2021-01-01/all/all. 5 August 2022.
5. Web site: Schweizer Jahreshitparade 2021. hitparade.ch. 27 December 2021.
6. Web site: White Lies . Amazon . 25 January 2021.
7. Web site: White Lies (NOØN Remix) . Amazon . 2 April 2021.
8. Web site: White Lies (HBz Remix) . Amazon . 24 May 2021.