"I Turn My Camera On" is a song by American indie rock band Spoon, the third track on their fifth studio album, Gimme Fiction (2005).

Daniel wrote the song after hearing "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand, and was influenced by the works of Prince to sing with falsetto vocals on the track.

Daniel's lyrics are about "emotional distance", centering around a narrator who documents their surrounding world with a camera instead of actually engaging with it.

"I Turn My Camera On" received positive remarks from music critics, with one writer calling it one of Spoon's signature songs.

[2] It was one of the last songs he had written for Gimme Fiction before the band started to record at drummer Jim Eno's Public Hi-Fi studio in Austin.

[2] He chose to explore their music after discovering that his ex-girlfriend, Eleanor Friedberger, was dating their frontman, Alex Kapranos.

[3] The band had taken a different approach to the writing the song's music, focusing on creating a more dance- and soul-oriented sound.

[7] Both Phares and Eric Carr, the latter of whom writing for Pitchfork, compared the song to "Emotional Rescue" by the Rolling Stones.

[10] Spoon created a music video to promote the song, which was directed by Autumn de Wilde and Wyatt Troll.

In "Any Given Sundance", episode 18 of the show's nineteenth season, the song is played fittingly in the background while Lisa Simpson documents her family and the town of Springfield with a camera.

Eric Carr of Pitchfork called it a "Prince-tastic masterpiece",[9] while Amir Nezar of the Cokemachineglow blog enjoyed the song's "Prince-funk minimalism" as well as its "hip-shaking swagger".

[28] At AllMusic, Heather Phares complimented the band's ability to make a song about "voyeurism and emotional distance" while also giving it an "irresistible groove" at the same time.