Thriller · Tesla Light Show
by Michael Jackson
That prowling bassline gets a low, creeping pulse, the synth stabs snap sharp across the front, and every "thriller night" flares the full body. The spoken-word finish earns a slow, eerie fade, and Vincent Price gets the last flicker to himself. At 5:58 this is very nearly the longest run in the catalog, and it never stops moving, which is a great deal of show to hold together. Roughly a quarter of the values sit at a partial level, so the creep actually creeps instead of blinking. Tail-led, peaking through the middle.
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 39% of the car is lit against 30% at the top, then it eases back for the finish. The fullest ten seconds arrive late, starting at 5:18 with about 43% of the car lit, so keep the camera rolling to the end. 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, 47% front to 53% 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 5:58 and averages 73 of 255 across the light channels, a mid-brightness show, with real headroom kept in reserve for the peaks. About 24% 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 0.5 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.
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.
