Five Breakup Resolutions That Never Work: Mike Sain't Louis Annotates the Promises in “Voy a olvidarme de ti”

MADRID, October 25, 2026 — Some sentences are spoken in the hope that saying them will make them true. I'm quitting smoking. I start the gym on Monday. I'm going to forget you. Almost nobody who says them is sure they can keep them.

Madrid-based indie alternative artist Mike Sain't Louis, who bills himself as “the first AI singer-songwriter,” has built a whole new blog essay around the last one. The song is “Voy a olvidarme de ti” (“I'm Going to Forget You”), a sevillana by María de la Colina that he has recorded in his own version. His question is a homely one: can you forget someone just because you decide to? His short answer is no. His longer answer is a list.

Below are the five resolutions at the heart of the lyric, annotated with his reading of each.

1. Forget an “I love you” overnight

The song opens by setting a deadline, and the deadline is impossible:

«Voy a olvidar un "te quiero" de la noche a la mañana»

In Spanish, de la noche a la mañana means “overnight,” suddenly, with no transition. That is exactly what never happens after a breakup, Mike Sain't Louis points out. Nobody goes to bed in love and wakes up indifferent. Forgetting, if it comes at all, comes in pieces, with relapses and good days and days when everything floods back.

But he also enjoys the literal reading. From night to morning is the time you spend in bed, next to the pillow. The first line quietly announces the object that will show up later. “Nights are when it's hardest to forget,” he says, “and the morning is when you promise yourself, again, that today's the day.”

2. Put out a fire

Every verse begins with a verb in the future tense, like a New Year's list written for heartbreak: I'm going to forget, I'm going to put out, I'm going to cut. The second task is to extinguish a fire. Nobody turns off an inner fire with a switch, and the lyric knows it. The list is firm in its form and fragile underneath, and that contradiction, he writes, is exactly what makes the song hurt.

He likes lyrics built this way, out of concrete gestures rather than abstractions. “Saying ‘I'm going to get over it’ moves no one,” he says. “Saying you're going to forget the smell of a pillow does. Because we've all had that pillow.”

3. Stop thinking about a white bear

This item is not in the lyric, but it explains the whole song. In the 1980s, American psychologist Daniel Wegner asked a group of people not to think about a white bear for a few minutes. They ended up thinking about it more than people who had never been given the instruction. Trying to suppress a thought made it come back harder.

For Mike Sain't Louis, that experiment explains better than any poem why “Voy a olvidarme de ti” is so sad. Every time the narrator repeats that he is going to forget, he is thinking about the person he wants to forget. The promise keeps the memory alive. And the song's structure copies that loop: phrases return two, three times, like the bear that walks back into your head the moment you swear it won't.

4. Stop playing the game

Here the essay turns from diagnosis to something more useful. Memory, he writes, is not a file you can delete on command; emotionally charged memories stay. What changes with time is the effect they have. The same memory that splits you in two today may, a year from now, cause a twinge or even a smile.

That is why he thinks the song, although it says “forget,” is really about something else: no longer obeying the memory. Not playing along, as one of its verses puts it. The memory may stay, but it no longer gets to decide whether you answer the text, walk down that street or scroll through the photos at three in the morning. “Forgetting by decree is impossible,” he says. “Stopping acting on someone's behalf is hard, but it's possible. That's what the song is really about.”

That distinction carries weight in his catalog. Mike Sain't Louis has said publicly that, with professional help, he turns years of relationships with narcissistic partners into music, to make psychological abuse and its marks on mental health visible, so that people living through it feel seen and believed.

5. Forget the smell of the pillow

And then comes the detail he calls the heart of the lyric:

«Y el olor de tu almohada»

Of all the resolutions in the song, this is the most physical and the hardest. A smell ambushes you. It is the one item on the list that admits, without saying so, that the list will not be finished on schedule.

Why it travels

Spanish copla and sevillanas may sound far from an American playlist, but the experience in this song needs no passport. Anyone who has made a breakup resolution and broken it before lunch will recognize it. The full lyric is published on Mike Sain't Louis's website, so English-speaking listeners can read along with a translation open beside it.

Listen and download for free

“Voy a olvidarme de ti” and the rest of Mike Sain't Louis's catalog can be streamed and downloaded free of charge at https://mikesaintlouis.com, with lyrics for every song. No sign-up, no payment. His music is also on Spotify, Deezer and the major digital platforms, and new videos appear on Instagram at @planetagayfolk. The full essay is on his blog: https://mikesaintlouis.com/blog/el-olor-de-la-almohada-voy-a-olvidarme-de-ti-y-por-que-no-se-olvida-por-decreto

About Mike Sain't Louis

Mike Sain't Louis is a lyricist, composer and music producer, and the artistic director and CEO of his own independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. He writes the lyrics of his own songs; the music and the vocal performances are created with artificial intelligence, which he uses as a production and arrangement tool. Over roughly two years he has built PLANETA GAYFOLK, a catalog of 273 singles and more than 280 music videos, anchored by the GAYFOLK trilogy: “Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK,” “Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK” and “El día de la liberación,” a single journey toward a planet where everyone can live as they are. Many listeners found him in 2024, when “Tan Cateto” went viral on TikTok.

Press contact

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