"When Do I Get to Sing 'My Way'" is a song by American band Sparks, released in October 1994 by Logic Records as the first single from their 1994 album Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins.

"[4] Larry Flick from Billboard stated that the song "will provide hours of joy for hi-NRG purists with its sugar-sweet melody, rapid syncopated beats, and cheeky chorus.

"[5] He also noted that Sparks "sound completely comfortable within the context of this deliciously dramatic anthem", adding that its "clever, eye-winking words are warbled with a cooing falsetto over a festive, trance-carpeted hi-NRG groove.

"[6] Chuck Campbell from Knoxville News Sentinel wrote, "There's sad irony and a bit of a wink in that line [...], a Pet Shop Boys/Erasure-sounding song.

For those either unfamiliar with or only vaguely aware of the act (and they far outnumber those who know very much about it), Sparks' Ron and Russell Mael were the forerunners to Britain's Pet Shop Boys and Erasure.

Mirroring “My Way”‘s catalog of hard-won victories, Russell Mael counts off a rash of difficult close losses and mild humiliations with clever, but not mocking, anguish.

Mael reflects on the un-specialness of it all over a consistent electro-pulse: “Sign your name with an X, mow the lawn.” What reads as a self-aware joke on paper winds up being a far-reaching realization, more universal than its source material, and one of Sparks’ all-time best songs.