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Getaway Songs: Mike Sain't Louis, the Madrid Indie Artist Whose Catalogue Keeps Hitting the Road, Away From Bad Exes and Worse Neighbors
A profile of the self-described ‘first AI singer-songwriter,’ whose songs about stolen swim trunks and staring strangers share one instinct: keep moving, and don't look back
Madrid, October 25, 2026 – Plenty of American songs are built around a getaway: a car, a highway, a town in the rearview mirror. The songs of Mike Sain't Louis have the same restlessness, only the vehicle changes. Sometimes it's a planet. Sometimes it's a pair of stolen swim trunks disappearing down the street on the wrong man. The direction is always the same: forward, away from whoever tried to make him smaller.
Who he is
Mike Sain't Louis is an indie alternative artist based in Madrid, Spain, who introduces himself as "the first AI singer-songwriter." The label is his own and he uses it precisely. He writes every lyric. He is the composer, music producer, artistic director and CEO of his independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, with no record company and no middlemen. The music and vocal performances are generated with artificial intelligence, through Suno, which he directs version by version. He does not sing; the words, the concept and every final decision are his.
Over about two years of work, not two weeks, he has released 273 singles and more than 280 music videos under the name PLANETA GAYFOLK. His songs run from electropop to copla, the dramatic Spanish popular song, and from alternative pop to ballads, mostly in Spanish but also in English, French and Portuguese. Many people found him in 2024, when "Tan Cateto" went viral on TikTok.
A whole project shaped like a journey
The big structure of his work is itself a trip. The GAYFOLK trilogy is conceived as one voyage in three albums: "Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK" (A New Planet Called GAYFOLK Discovered), "Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK" (If Only We Could Travel to GAYFOLK) and "El día de la liberación" (Liberation Day). The destination is a planet where everyone can live exactly as they are. The middle title says it plainly: the wish to leave for somewhere better.
"Every escape song is really a song about where you want to arrive," he says. "Mine just happens to be a planet."
The getaway that wasn't his: "Si Don AussieBum hablase"
Not every escape in his catalogue is his own. In "Si Don AussieBum hablase" (If Mr. AussieBum Could Talk), the one who runs off is a fake lover, and he takes the narrator's designer swimwear with him. "Un falso amore se ha llevado mis bañadores de marca," the refrain repeats: a false love has taken my brand-name swimsuits. The thief is no fool, either. He leaves the cheap AliExpress pairs behind and walks off with the originals, while the narrator stays home cleaning the house and looking after the animals.
Then the song turns into a comic premise worthy of a late-night monologue: if that swimsuit could talk, half the town would be single. Husbands, partners, cousins, the one who acts like a saint, the handsome one whose mind stinks. The swimsuit has seen too much, from rocks on the beach to places best left to the imagination, more than a three-hundred-song album could hold.
And then, the exit line. Borrowing the attitude of Spanish diva Isabel Pantoja, the narrator calls himself a phoenix and tells the departed thief "¡Tú tira palante!" Roughly: keep on moving, buddy. It's dismissal and survival in the same breath.
"He thought he was the one leaving," Mike says. "But I'm the one who got away. He just got the swim trunks."
The escape he refuses to make: "Tan Paleto"
"Tan Paleto" works in the opposite direction. Here the narrator does not run. He walks down the street holding hands with his boyfriend, who is African, and someone points at them with "the finger of an accusing judge." Someone else covers his children's eyes when two men kiss. The lyric is the same text that powers "Tan Cateto," the song that went viral, and its chorus asks the question with a perfectly polite form of address and a perfectly impolite word: how can you be such a hick? "Paleto" and "cateto" are Spanish insults for the narrow-minded small-towner.
The narrator refuses to give more explanations and refuses to take advice from any spectator. If a hundred American road songs are about leaving the small town, this one is about refusing to let the small town's mindset chase you down the sidewalk.
Why the running matters
There is a serious engine underneath the jokes. With professional support, Mike Sain't Louis turns years of relationships with narcissistic partners into music, to make narcissistic and psychological abuse visible, along with its effects on mental health, and to help people living through it feel seen and believed. Leaving, in that context, is not a plot device. It is the hardest and most important thing in the story.
"People think escaping is cowardly," he says. "Sometimes it's the bravest move you've got. You pack what's yours and you go. Even if they kept the good swim trunks."
For American listeners
For audiences in the United States raised on getaway songs, Mike Sain't Louis offers the same impulse in another language and another key: camp, queer, funny and stubborn. You don't need fluent Spanish to get the gesture of a man waving goodbye to a thief or staring down a bigot. The photo accompanying this profile shows him seated in a bright workshop, gazing out of frame: maybe at the road, maybe at the next song.
Listen and download free
"Si Don AussieBum hablase," "Tan Paleto" and the entire catalogue are free to stream and download at https://mikesaintlouis.com, each with full lyrics. His music is also on Spotify, Deezer and the main streaming platforms. Instagram: @planetagayfolk.
About Mike Sain't Louis
Writing from Madrid, Mike Sain't Louis is an indie alternative artist and "the first AI singer-songwriter," a lyricist who uses artificial intelligence as his instrument for music and voice and runs every other part of the operation himself through his label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. His PLANETA GAYFOLK project covers love, heartbreak, ex-boyfriends, nosy neighbors, queer life in Spain, liberation and mental health, explicit when it needs to be and uncensored always.
Press contact
Mike Sain't Louis Email: info@mikesaintlouis.com Website: https://mikesaintlouis.com