Shut Up and Dance · Tesla Light Show
by Walk the Moon
Walk the Moon's 2014 hit is a story about a dance floor that turned into a marriage, which is why it turns up at so many receptions. The show is bright and cheerful, the tail lights leading with the signature bar answering at a steady pace, and the fullest stretch comes in the middle, around the big chorus. Three minutes seventeen. It is tagged for both weddings and New Year's Eve and is at home at either: anywhere somebody needs a reason to grab a hand and head outside.
How this one is choreographed
The lights re-fire about 0.8 times a second, a middle pace that tracks the beat without crowding it. The peak is in the middle third, where roughly 41% of the car is lit against 34% at the top, then it eases back for the finish. Most of the work falls on the tail lights, re-firing about 1.1 times a second, with the signature light bar and daytime running lights answering back at 0.9. It runs 3:17 and averages 90 of 255 across the light channels, a bright show that stays close to full through its busiest passages. The values are mostly hard on or hard off, only about 15% of samples sitting at a partial level, which reads sharp and percussive from across a parking lot.
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.
