Thrift Shop · Tesla Light Show
by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
That sax hook struts across the front of the car and the show plays the comedy completely straight: tight bounces on the beat, hard hits on the hook, one raised eyebrow held throughout. It fires fast and finishes wider than it opens, so the last minute is the loudest part. About a fifth of the light values sit partial, giving the strut a little smear rather than a hard snap. Four minutes led by the signature bar. A song about spending twenty dollars, choreographed like a song about spending considerably more.
How this one is choreographed
This is one of the fastest shows in the library: the lights re-fire about 1.2 times a second and rarely sit still. It builds. The car runs about 30% of its lights through the opening third and finishes near 34%, so the biggest picture is the one you end on. If you are filming, the fullest ten seconds start at 2:45, when about 40% of the car is lit at once. Most of the work falls on the signature light bar and daytime running lights, re-firing about 1.6 times a second, with the front turn signals answering back at 1.5. The work is split close to evenly between the two ends, 53% front to 47% 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 0.7 re-fires a second. It runs 3:57 and averages 72 of 255 across the light channels, a mid-brightness show, with real headroom kept in reserve for the peaks. About 21% 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. It never goes completely dark for long: the longest gap is 0.6 of a second, just before the close.
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.
