Butterfly Wings in the Louvre, a Stranger in the Kitchen: Inside the Visual World of Mike Sain't Louis and His 280-Plus Music Videos

Madrid, 25 October 2026 – Most independent artists release a single and hope for one decent video. Mike Sain't Louis has made more than 280 of them. In roughly two years he has published 273 singles, and nearly every one has its own film. Seen together, they form something closer to a television channel than a discography: a running visual diary of a queer life in Spain, played for laughs, for tears and, frequently, for both at once.

The man behind the frames

Mike Sain't Louis is an indie alternative artist based in Madrid who presents himself as "the first AI singer-songwriter". He writes every lyric and acts as composer, music producer, artistic director and CEO of his independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. There is no record company and no middleman. The music and vocal performances are generated with artificial intelligence through Suno, which he directs version by version. He does not sing. What he does, in the studio and in the videos, is decide.

"A song isn't finished for me until I know what it looks like," he says. "The words come first. Then I need to see where they live."

A planet with its own palette

All of it belongs to PLANETA GAYFOLK, the universe that holds his GAYFOLK trilogy: "Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK", "Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK" and "El día de la liberación", three albums imagined as one journey to a planet where everyone can live as they are. The videos are the postcards from that journey.

Some of them he has described himself. For "Louvre", he imagined walking into a solemn museum wearing butterfly wings and turning it into a dance floor, which, he says, is what people who are different have always done: rewrite the places where they were never invited. "Ride the Wave" is a chill-out trip through light and water under neon skies. "Ni con un palo" uses neon to show what usually stays hidden in an abusive relationship: coldness, guilt, a body rejected. "Vota Malena Gracia" stages a galactic election to stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk buying the planet, a tribute to Malena Gracia in which beauty becomes a political act.

The common thread is a camp sensibility that knows it is exaggerating, paired with emotional stakes that are completely sincere. Behind many of the songs lies a purpose he has spoken about openly: with professional support, he turns years of relationships with narcissistic partners into music, to make psychological abuse and its effects on mental health visible, and to help those who have lived through it feel seen and believed.

"Garrafón de China": the morning after, in close-up

If the videos are a diary, "Garrafón de China" is the page written with a pounding head. "Garrafón" is Spanish slang for cheap, dodgy spirits poured from unlabelled bottles, and the song blames exactly that: the muscleman behind the bar sold them garrafón. The narrator wakes up next to a man he cannot place, with no memory of how he got there, and the chorus delivers the punchline as a near-cinematic image: "Y ahora tengo a un extraño en mi cocina" (and now there's a stranger in my kitchen).

It's a scene that practically storyboards itself: the headache, the mystery guest, the slow realisation. British listeners who have survived a heavy Saturday will recognise the genre at once, even if the brand of regret is Spanish.

"Every hangover is a short film," he jokes. "Bad lighting, confusing plot, a cast you don't remember hiring."

"Ya está amaneciendo": dawn, the other way round

"Ya está amaneciendo" comes from the opposite end of the night, and from another era. It is Mike's version of a song by El Fary, credited to Juan Bautista Paz Pérez, José Luis Cantero Rada and Francisca Teresa Alonso Martín. Where "Garrafón de China" wakes up in chaos, this one wakes up with purpose: the night leaves, the sun calls, and the narrator heads out into the daily struggle of the big city, then returns home to his own people. Its philosophy is disarmingly simple: no wish for sorrow, a preference for laughter, no harm to anyone, "andar mi camino y dejar caminar", walk my own road and let others walk theirs.

Put the two songs side by side and you have the two dawns of Madrid: the one you stumble into and the one you set out to meet. That double vision runs through the whole PLANETA GAYFOLK catalogue.

Why British audiences might look twice

The UK has a strong tradition of music video as an art form in its own right, and of pop that treats camp as a serious language. Mike Sain't Louis offers a body of work built at an unusual scale, entirely outside the label system, with artificial intelligence used openly as an instrument rather than hidden. Many viewers first found him in 2024, when "Tan Cateto" went viral on TikTok, and the visual archive since then makes it easy to binge.

The photograph accompanying this profile, taken in a whitewashed alley with blue doors and the sea behind him, could be a still from one of his own videos: Mediterranean light, a sideways glance, a story about to start.

Watch, listen and download

Every song, lyrics included, can be streamed and downloaded free of charge at https://mikesaintlouis.com. His music is also on Spotify, Deezer and the main streaming platforms. The visual side of the project lives on Instagram at @planetagayfolk.

About Mike Sain't Louis

Mike Sain't Louis is a Madrid indie alternative artist and lyricist who calls himself "the first AI singer-songwriter". Writing mainly in Spanish, and also in English, French and Portuguese, he moves between electropop, alternative pop, copla and ballads, tackling love, exes, nosy neighbours, queer life in Spain, liberation and mental health without censorship. His PLANETA GAYFOLK project combines 273 singles with more than 280 music videos, produced over about two years under his own independent label.

Press contact

Mike Sain't Louis Email: info@mikesaintlouis.com Website: https://mikesaintlouis.com