Every Good Journey Starts With a Bad Night: Why Mike Sain't Louis's GAYFOLK Trilogy Deserves to Be Heard From Start to Finish

MADRID, 25 October 2026 — We have got into the habit of meeting artists one song at a time. A clip on a phone, a chorus in a feed, a single that travels further than the album it came from. Mike Sain't Louis, the Madrid-based indie alternative artist who calls himself "the first AI singer-songwriter", has benefited from that habit more than most: in 2024 his song "Tan Cateto" went viral on TikTok, and a lot of people met him that way. This column argues that it is the wrong way to stay.

A trilogy, not a playlist

The spine of his project, PLANETA GAYFOLK, is a trilogy of albums designed to be heard as one journey. The titles tell the story on their own. First, "Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK": a new planet called GAYFOLK has been discovered. Then "Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK": if only we could travel there. Finally, "El día de la liberación": liberation day. The destination is a planet where every person can live exactly as they are.

Around that spine sit 273 singles and more than 280 music videos, released over about two years through his own label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. It is easy to get lost in a catalogue that size, and easier still to treat it as a jukebox. The trilogy is his answer: a map, with a beginning, a longing and an arrival.

"I didn't want people to think the planet was an escape button," he has said. "You don't get to GAYFOLK by skipping the bad bits. You get there by going through them."

The bad night

Consider "La noche no es para mí" ("The Night Isn't for Me"). It is one of the darkest lyrics in his catalogue, and it is a good place to understand why the journey matters. The narrator no longer knows what is right or wrong. He waits for the night the way someone waits for their end. He spends the day running around looking for some leitmotiv to cure boredom and loneliness at a stroke.

Then the clock passes two, the alcohol runs through his blood, and the darkness takes over his mind until he can't bear it. "La noche no es para mí": the night is not for me, repeated until it sounds less like a complaint than a refusal.

Heard alone, it is a bleak song. Heard as part of a journey towards a better planet, it becomes the place you are leaving. That is the difference a trilogy makes. It turns despair into a point of departure.

The spoiler

Now take "Spoiler", which is funnier and far more specific. The narrator watches a partner's online behaviour drift, step by step. It started with likes on photos of Madonna. Within a week, that wasn't enough: a new profile picture posing with perfect lips, frequent stories, flirting with the camera. Ten likes, at least, on the one with the abs. Hearts, a smiley face in the comments, and whatever happens next will be entirely involuntary.

The narrator knows how this film ends and offers to spoil it: a B-grade horror film, and they end up splitting. The twist is the last line. "Pero esta vez soy inmune, no me va a doler." This time I'm immune; it won't hurt.

On a single listen, that is a sharp joke about social media. Placed on the road to GAYFOLK, it is something more: proof that the narrator has learned the plot. He recognises the pattern before it destroys him. That is what progress looks like on this journey, not a sudden happy ending, but a person who can see the twist coming.

The man who signs the map

It is worth being precise about how these songs are made, because the debate tends to get loud. Mike Sain't Louis writes every lyric. The music and the vocal performances are generated with artificial intelligence, which he directs as a production and arrangement tool. He does not sing. As lyricist, composer, producer, artistic director and CEO of his label, he decides what each song says and where it sits on the map.

"The machine doesn't know what comes after the bad night," he says. "I do. That's my job: to put the songs in an order where you can actually get somewhere."

There is a serious motive under the camp, too. With professional support, he has been turning years of relationships with narcissistic partners into music, to make psychological abuse and its effects on mental health visible, so that people living through it feel seen and believed. A journey from a 2 a.m. collapse to a spoiler you can laugh at is, in its own way, a recovery story.

An Irish case for listening long

Ireland has always valued the long telling: the story that takes its time, the song with fifteen verses, the album you put on and do not interrupt. Mike Sain't Louis's trilogy asks for that kind of attention. His songs are mostly in Spanish, with some in English, French and Portuguese, and they run from electropop and copla to alternative pop and ballads, but the shape of the journey needs no translation. A theatre, like the one in the photograph accompanying this release, is built for exactly this: sitting down and staying until the end.

Start the journey

The three albums and every single, including "La noche no es para mí" and "Spoiler", can be streamed and downloaded free of charge at https://mikesaintlouis.com, with the lyrics of every song. The music is also available on Spotify, Deezer and the major platforms.

About Mike Sain't Louis

Mike Sain't Louis is an indie alternative artist from Madrid and, in his own words, "the first AI singer-songwriter". He writes all his lyrics, shapes AI-generated music and vocals as composer and producer, and runs his label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, without intermediaries. His queer, uncensored and often comic songs about love, exes, nosy neighbours and liberation make up PLANETA GAYFOLK, offered free in full.

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