“Am I boring you yet?” Madrid’s Mike Sain't Louis turns the songwriter’s most awkward question into a lyric

MADRID, 25 October 2026 – Mike Sain't Louis, the Madrid-based alternative indie artist who describes himself as “the first AI singer-songwriter”, has published a new essay on his website about «Otro bombardeo» (“Another Bombardment”), a song in which he stops mid-lyric to ask a question most writers would rather keep to themselves: has my story started to bore people?

The essay, available free at mikesaintlouis.com, takes apart one couplet from the song. Its subject is not war. It is the long aftermath of emotional abuse, and the fear that talking about it once too often might cost you your audience.

A war with no shrapnel

The single’s cover looks like a still from a war film: a man sprinting across waste ground, shirt torn, face contorted, black smoke and sparks behind him. There is no aircraft in the sky. The bombing itself is never shown, only the person running from it.

Mike says the song works in exactly the same way. Most of his catalogue hides behind a joke. This one doesn’t. It opens with the plainest sentence imaginable, someone saying they are very sad and cannot stop crying, written with no metaphor at all.

“On good days the images turn up by themselves,” he writes. “On bad days all you get is the dictionary sentence. I thought it was more honest to leave the dictionary sentence than to dress it up – like wearing sunglasses at a funeral so nobody sees your eyes.”

The line that rhymes too well

The heart of the song is a two-line question:

«¿Será verdad que soy una víctima / Y ya cansa mi historia lírica?»

Roughly: is it true that I’m a victim, and that my lyrical story has become tiresome? In Spanish, víctima and lírica are both stressed on the third-last syllable, a near-perfect rhyme of the kind that would raise a smile at a school poetry contest. What it says is anything but playful.

Mike has spent much of his catalogue writing about narcissistic partners, gaslighting, lying exes and punishing silences. The couplet asks what happens if listeners have had enough. “If my lyrical story is tiresome, then my work is tiresome,” he writes. “For a lyricist there’s no way of separating the two.”

A word with two edges

He is particularly interested in the word lírica. Nobody uses it at the pub; it belongs to school textbooks and exam essays. But in everyday Spanish, saying someone is “getting lyrical” also means they are being dramatic. The phrase therefore points at both his work and his reputation at the dinner table, and its rhyme with “victim” deliberately lands on the two roles nobody wants to play among friends.

“That’s the uncomfortable bit,” he says. “The lyric isn’t asking for sympathy. It’s asking whether I’m the friend who brings up the same subject at every dinner while everyone else exchanges looks. I wanted that doubt on the record, not edited out.”

Exaggeration without the laugh

The essay also looks at the line that comes just before, in which the speaker says he no longer knows whom to trust because everyone treats him badly. That “everyone” is an exaggeration, Mike admits, but one that anyone who has been through a period of sustained attack will recognise: when every phone notification might be another reproach, the postman, the neighbour and the friend who is slow to reply all become suspects.

Exaggeration is a standard tool in his party songs, where it is there to be laughed at. Here, he notes, it is the exaggeration of fear, and the lyric leaves it raw rather than correcting it.

Why it matters

Mike Sain't Louis has said publicly that, with professional support, he turns years of relationships with narcissistic partners into songs, to make psychological abuse and its effect on mental health visible and to help people who live through it feel seen and believed. «Otro bombardeo» is the moment in that project where he turns the camera on himself and on the listener’s patience.

For UK audiences used to confessional songwriting, the essay offers something less common: a writer questioning the confessional form from the inside, in plain language and without self-pity.

About the method

Mike writes all of his lyrics. The music and vocal performances are generated with artificial intelligence, which he uses as a production and arrangement tool, while the words, ideas and artistic direction are his own. He is lyricist, composer, music producer, artistic director and CEO of his independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, with no record company involved.

Listen and download

«Otro bombardeo» and the rest of the PLANETA GAYFOLK catalogue can be streamed and downloaded free of charge at https://mikesaintlouis.com, with full lyrics for each song. The music is also available on Spotify, Deezer and other major platforms. The full essay is on the blog section of the same site.

About Mike Sain't Louis

Mike Sain't Louis is an alternative indie artist from Madrid and, in his own words, “the first AI singer-songwriter”. Over roughly two years he has built PLANETA GAYFOLK, a catalogue of 273 singles and more than 280 music videos ranging from electropop and alternative pop to copla and ballads, in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. His GAYFOLK trilogy – «Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK», «Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK» and «El día de la liberación» – imagines a journey to a planet where everyone can live as they are. Many listeners found him in 2024, when «Tan Cateto» went viral on TikTok.

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