I Want It That Way · Tesla Light Show
by Backstreet Boys
Built like the song: soft verse glow, then the "tell me why" call-and-answer plays left against right before the chorus everyone in the driveway is already singing pulls the whole car in. It is a patient show by design, with cues spaced far enough apart that each one registers, and it saves its widest picture for the last chorus. Brightness sits in the lower half of the catalog, which keeps the final lift feeling like an arrival rather than more of the same. Peak Millennium pop, and it plays best to a crowd old enough to remember 1999.
How this one is choreographed
The choreography is deliberately unhurried: the lights re-fire about 0.5 times a second, so cues land as separate moments rather than a blur. It builds. The car runs about 28% of its lights through the opening third and finishes near 33%, so the biggest picture is the one you end on. If you are filming, the fullest ten seconds start at 1:57, when about 37% of the car is lit at once. Most of the work falls on the signature light bar and daytime running lights, re-firing about 0.6 times a second, with the side markers answering back at 0.5. The work is split close to evenly between the two ends, 52% front to 48% rear, so it plays from either end, or side-on from the curb. The quietest part of the car is the inner main beams, at about 0.3 re-fires a second. It runs 3:31 and averages 66 of 255 across the light channels, a darker show that spends most of its time well below full, so the hits carry further. About 15% of the light values sit at a partial level, so hits are punctuated by fades rather than being pure on and off. The longest full blackout lasts 1.0 seconds, just before the close, and that pause is what makes the next hit land.
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.
