From Butterflies to Four Walls and Back Out: Mike Sain't Louis Maps the Three-Album Journey of His GAYFOLK Trilogy

Madrid, October 25, 2026 – Most trilogies are planned from the first page. Mike Sain't Louis built his from the inside out. Over roughly two years, the Madrid-based indie alternative artist who calls himself "the first AI singer-songwriter" wrote and released 273 singles and more than 280 music videos. Out of that catalogue, known as PLANETA GAYFOLK, he shaped three albums meant to be heard as one trip: I. "Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK" (A new planet called GAYFOLK has been discovered), II. "Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK" (If only you could travel to GAYFOLK) and III. "El día de la liberación" (Liberation Day).

The destination is simple to state and hard to reach: a planet where every person can live exactly as they are. Everything, from the music to the lyrics, is free to stream and download at mikesaintlouis.com.

"It's not science fiction," Mike Sain't Louis says. "It's a breakup told as a space voyage. First you see the planet. Then you want to go. Then you finally land."

The writer and his tool

Mike Sain't Louis writes all of his own lyrics and works as composer, music producer, artistic director and CEO of his independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. There is no record company and no intermediary. The music and vocal performances are created with artificial intelligence, used as a production and arranging tool that he directs version by version. The words, the concept and the decisions belong to him.

That division matters for a trilogy. An album sequence is an editorial act, and editing, he says, is where most of his hours go: listening, discarding, starting again. Deciding which song comes before which is the same craft on a larger scale. A single can be a joke; three albums in a row have to tell the truth about how getting out actually feels.

Stage one: discovery, with butterflies

Any journey needs a reason to leave home, and in GAYFOLK the reason is often a crush. "Ese chulito" ("That cocky guy") is pure early infatuation. The narrator cannot sleep, the smile has him dizzy, and the butterflies are back. The last time he felt them, he recalls, was during his driving test, and then two years later in a car with Melendi on the stereo, right before a Guardia Civil checkpoint. Then the chorus collapses into joy: he has fallen for that "bebecito," and the dance floor is open.

It is a comic, specific, very Spanish song, and it captures the discovery phase of the trilogy perfectly: the moment when something new appears on the horizon and the heart overreacts.

"Butterflies are ridiculous," he says. "That's why I wrote them next to a traffic stop. Love always shows up at the worst possible moment."

Stage two: the room with no door

Between seeing the planet and landing on it there is distance, and the trilogy does not skip it. "Entre cuatro paredes" ("Between four walls") is one of the starkest songs in the catalogue. No spark of hope appears, there is no wish to leave the room, no strength or motivation, and the narrator is alone between four walls, always set apart even in a crowd. Colours vanish; each day weighs more than the last.

Only at the very end does something shift. Something inside asks to breathe, and the final line leaves a narrow opening: "Tal vez algún día logre despertar." Maybe one day I'll manage to wake up.

That is the honest middle of any escape. Mike Sain't Louis has spoken publicly about turning years of relationships with narcissistic partners into songs, with professional help, to make psychological abuse and its effects on mental health visible, so that people living through it feel seen and believed. Songs like this one are where that purpose is least decorated.

Stage three: landing

The third album, "El día de la liberación," is the arrival: a declaration that the wounds have stopped bleeding and that the person who caused them has lost. After a crush that went wrong and a long stretch inside four walls, the trip ends on solid ground, often with a joke and a beach in sight.

"The order matters," he says. "If you only hear the party songs, you think I'm just a clown. If you only hear the sad ones, you think I'm still in that room. The trilogy says: I was in the room, and now I'm out."

Why Canadian listeners may want the whole trip

For Canadian audiences comfortable moving between languages, PLANETA GAYFOLK offers something unusual: songs mostly in Spanish, with others in English, French or Portuguese, spanning electropop, copla, alternative pop and ballad. Every lyric is published next to its song, which makes the trilogy easy to follow even with classroom Spanish. Lyrics can be explicit; that candour is part of the work.

Many listeners first heard of the artist in 2024, when "Tan Cateto" went viral on TikTok. The trilogy is the larger story that song belongs to.

Listen and download

All three GAYFOLK albums and all 273 singles can be streamed and downloaded free of charge at https://mikesaintlouis.com, with full lyrics for every track. The music is also available on Spotify, Deezer and other major platforms. Follow along on Instagram at @planetagayfolk.

About Mike Sain't Louis

Based in Madrid, Mike Sain't Louis is an indie alternative artist and lyricist who presents himself as "the first AI singer-songwriter." He runs every part of his project independently through his own label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. His catalogue, PLANETA GAYFOLK, is queer, uncensored and camp, built on love, heartbreak, ex-boyfriends, everyday queer life in Spain, liberation and mental health, and offered to the public at no cost.

Media contact

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