More Music Videos Than Songs: The Odd Arithmetic Behind Mike Sain't Louis and the Skies Over His Planet GAYFOLK

Madrid, 25 October 2026 – Here is a number that does not add up the way you would expect: Mike Sain't Louis has published 273 singles and more than 280 music videos. More pictures than songs. For most artists, the video is the expensive extra a label pays for when a track takes off. For the Madrid-based indie alternative artist who calls himself "the first AI singer-songwriter", the image is part of the writing from the start, and the catalogue he has assembled over roughly two years is less a list of tracks than a place with its own sky.

He calls that place PLANETA GAYFOLK.

"I don't write songs, I write scenes," he says. "Then I need somewhere to put them. So I built a planet. Planets need weather."

That surplus of videos is the curious fact worth holding on to. It suggests that, for him, the picture is never an afterthought: a song arrives already carrying its own sky. It also explains why so many of his lyrics read like stage directions: a window, a clock, a pair of heels, a light in the distance.

A man, a tool and a cosmos

Mike Sain't Louis writes all of his lyrics. He is also composer, music producer, artistic director and CEO of his own independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, with no record company and no middlemen. The music and the vocal performances are generated with artificial intelligence, which he uses as a production and arranging tool, picking and rejecting versions until one serves the words. The ideas, the jokes and the direction stay with him.

The space imagery is not decoration. It runs through the titles of the three albums of the GAYFOLK trilogy, conceived as one voyage: "Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK" (A new planet called GAYFOLK has been discovered), "Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK" (If only you could travel to GAYFOLK) and "El día de la liberación" (Liberation Day). First a sighting through the telescope, then the longing to make the trip, then a landing on a world where everyone can live as they are.

The horizon is the window across the street

Not every horizon on the planet is cosmic. In "La vecina cotilla" ("The nosy neighbour"), the furthest point the narrator can see is the window opposite. There lives a neighbour, tattooed, sporty, in short shorts, and the narrator has turned, by his own admission, into the gossiping woman who watches from behind the curtain. He stops going out. He puts on this very song and imagines them dancing slowly together.

The comedy is in the confession: these are things, he says, only a giddy girl would do. But there is a quieter detail in the bridge. He sits listening to the tick of a wall clock that his ex's father gave him, waiting like a small child for ten o'clock to come round so he can see the neighbour again. It is a tiny, domestic universe, measured in minutes and in the width of a street.

"Everyone has a window like that," he says. "Some of us just admit it in a chorus."

The sky is the limit, literally

"Soy marica sideral" goes the other direction: straight up. "Sideral" means sidereal, of the stars, and the song takes the old insult and launches it into orbit. Written in a fluid mix of Spanish and English, it is a manifesto of calm self-possession. The narrator did not come to save anyone's mood but to take up space. He does not ask permission. He shines without shouting, and he asks not to be confused with noise.

The most quoted lines sum up the stance:

Soy silencio con tacones, soy marica sideral.

Silence in high heels; a sidereal queen. The song also takes aim at the double standard that labels a queer man dramatic, theatrical, emotional, while nobody says a word about the textbook narcissist who caused the damage. Mike Sain't Louis has spoken publicly about turning years of relationships with narcissistic partners into music, with professional help, so that people who have experienced psychological abuse feel seen and believed. This is that purpose at its most serene.

"It's the song I'd play floating in space," he says. "No gravity. Nobody pulling you back down."

Why Irish listeners might look up

Ireland has its own long habit of turning heartbreak into a good story and a good laugh at the same table. Mike Sain't Louis works the same seam: love, heartbreak, ex-boyfriends, nosy neighbours, queer life in Spain, liberation and mental health, delivered with humour and camp and sometimes with explicit lyrics that are part of the work. His songs are mostly in Spanish, with others in English, French or Portuguese, and move from electropop to copla, alternative pop and ballad. Many people first found him in 2024, when "Tan Cateto" went viral on TikTok.

For newcomers, "Soy marica sideral" is an easy start thanks to its English lines. "La vecina cotilla" rewards anyone who reads the lyrics alongside it, which the website makes straightforward.

Where to listen

Every song, including both featured here, can be streamed and downloaded free at https://mikesaintlouis.com, each with its complete lyrics. The catalogue is also on Spotify, Deezer and the main streaming platforms. Instagram: @planetagayfolk.

About Mike Sain't Louis

Mike Sain't Louis is an indie alternative artist from Madrid who describes himself as "the first AI singer-songwriter". A lyricist first, he composes, produces and directs his work through his own independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. PLANETA GAYFOLK, his queer, uncensored and frequently very funny catalogue of 273 singles and more than 280 videos, is free for anyone to hear and keep.

Press enquiries

MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS – independent label Email: info@mikesaintlouis.com Website: https://mikesaintlouis.com Instagram: @planetagayfolk