Birthday · Tesla Light Show
by Katy Perry
Katy Perry's 2013 disco-pop party, all hand claps and horn stabs, and an easy way to turn someone's arrival into an event. The show picks up the bounce with the tail lights leading and the signature bar answering, busy without ever being frantic. It finishes wider than it starts, the last third carrying the most, so the car is at its fullest when the final chorus hits. Three and a half minutes at mid-brightness. Line it up for the moment the birthday guest pulls into the driveway.
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 31% of its lights through the opening third and finishes near 38%, 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 signature light bar and daytime running lights answering back at 1.0. It runs 3:35 and averages 77 of 255 across the light channels, a mid-brightness show, with real headroom kept in reserve for the peaks. About 17% of the light values sit at a partial level, so hits are punctuated by fades rather than being pure on and off.
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.
