1999 · Tesla Light Show
by Prince
Prince wrote a party song about the end of the world in 1982, and it has closed out New Year's Eve ever since. The show treats it as a long night that keeps getting better: it genuinely builds, the final third carrying noticeably more than the first, so it peaks right on the countdown if you start it early. The tail lights lead, with the front turn signals answering, at a busy clip rather than a frantic one. Over six minutes at a mid-brightness level, with plenty held back for the finish.
How this one is choreographed
This is a busy show. The lights re-fire about 0.9 times a second, near the top of what the catalog runs. It builds. The car runs about 25% of its lights through the opening third and finishes near 37%, so the biggest picture is the one you end on. Most of the work falls on the tail lights, re-firing about 1.0 times a second, with the front turn signals answering back at 1.0. It runs 6:14 and averages 69 of 255 across the light channels, a mid-brightness show, with real headroom kept in reserve for the peaks. About 18% of the light values are partial, toward the top of the range for this catalog, so the show leans on swells and dimming as much as on hits.
Measured from the exported light sequence for this show, not estimated from the song.
Get it for your Tesla
This show downloads for every Tesla: Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X, and Cybertruck. Preview it on your model with the View-on picker above, add it to your library, and it re-tailors to your car's lights automatically.
How to play it on your car
- Open the show above and add it to your library (remix it in the builder first if you want).
- Add your own copy of the song: an MP3/WAV you own. We distribute only the light pattern, never audio.
- Export the
.fseqbuilt for your model, then place your song next to it (or let the one-click USB writer do both). - Put both files in a
LightShowfolder on a USB drive. Or skip the manual steps: in Chrome/Edge, click 🔌 Write it to my USB drive for me right after exporting and we do it all, verified byte-for-byte. Then plug in and start it from Toybox → Light Show. Full walkthrough in the setup guide.
Car says Light Show instead of Custom Light Show, or the drive is not detected at all? That is the USB format, the folder name, or filenames that do not match. If it plays but drifts out of time, that is the audio sample rate. Fix both here.
