Superstition · Tesla Light Show
by Stevie Wonder
That clavinet riff is one of the funkiest things ever committed to tape, and the lights walk it note for note across the front of the car. The horn stabs punch full-body, the groove never lets up, and the whole thing struts considerably more than it spooks, which is exactly right. Wonder originally wrote it for Jeff Beck and then kept it, a decision history has been kind to. Four and a half minutes, tail-led, peaking through the middle. The Halloween show for a party where nobody is actually in costume.
How this one is choreographed
This is a busy show. The lights re-fire about 1.0 times a second, near the top of what the catalog runs. The peak is in the middle third, where roughly 34% of the car is lit against 30% at the top, then it eases back for the finish. If you are filming, the fullest ten seconds start at 1:07, when about 40% of the car is lit at once. Most of the work falls on the tail lights, re-firing about 1.2 times a second, with the signature light bar and daytime running lights answering back at 1.1. The work is split close to evenly between the two ends, 50% front to 50% 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 4:26 and averages 75 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. The longest full blackout lasts 1.1 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.
Running this on Halloween night? The Halloween guide covers timing it for trick-or-treaters, keeping the battery happy over a long evening, and what to do about the neighbours. Read the Halloween guide.
