White Lies (VIZE and Tokio Hotel song)
"White Lies" is the fifth promotional single from German rock band Tokio Hotel's upcoming seventh studio album featuring a guest appearance from German EDM duo VIZE. It was released on January 15, 2021. Two remixes of the song were released later that year; one by German DJ NOØN on April 2, 2021, and the other by German DJ duo HBz on May 7, 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 April 4, 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 April 15, 2021.