Told His Music Is Garbage Because It Uses AI, Madrid’s Mike Sain't Louis Keeps Publishing, and Points Critics to the Words He Wrote Himself

Madrid, October 25, 2026 – Some comments take three seconds to read and three days to shake off. Mike Sain't Louis knows the pattern well. He spends an afternoon choosing between two versions of a chorus, posts the new song, opens his phone to see whether anyone liked it, and the first thing waiting for him is a stranger who has not pressed play telling him he is a fraud, that his work is trash, that he should be ashamed. The reason is always the same: the music was made with artificial intelligence.

Mike Sain't Louis, an indie alternative artist based in Madrid, has never hidden that fact. He calls himself "the first AI singer-songwriter," and he says so in the first line, not the fine print. He writes every lyric. He is also the composer, music producer, artistic director and CEO of his own independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, with no record company and no middlemen behind him. The music and the vocal performances are generated with Suno, an AI tool he directs version by version. He does not sing. The words, the ideas and the decisions about what gets released are his.

Rather than go quiet, he has decided to talk about it openly.

There is a real debate. This isn't it.

Mike Sain't Louis is careful to separate two things that often get mixed up. There are serious questions about AI in music, and he does not treat the people who ask them as enemies: what material these tools were trained on and whether authors were paid; what happens to working musicians; how authorship is shared between a person and a machine; whether listeners have a right to know how a song was made.

"I have doubts about several of those myself, and I've said so," he explains. "If someone writes to me angry about how these tools are trained, we can talk. We might not agree, but we're talking about the same thing. What I usually get is something else dressed up as a debate. It doesn't ask anything. It doesn't care about the answer. It just says you're disgusting and you should disappear. AI is the excuse."

What contempt does to a person

He has written publicly about what that kind of message does to mood, and about what helps him keep going: telling a legitimate objection from an attack, and remembering that the comment was written in seconds by someone who did not listen.

Mental health is not a side topic for him. With professional support, Mike Sain't Louis turns years of relationships with narcissistic partners into songs, to make narcissistic and psychological abuse visible, along with the marks it leaves, and to help people who have lived through it feel seen and believed.

"The worst insults aren't the loud ones," he says. "They're the ones that make you doubt whether you're allowed to be here. I spent years with people who did that to me in private. I'm not going to let a stranger do it to me in public."

Two songs as an answer

When people tell him there is no person behind his music, he points to the lyrics. Two of them say a great deal about who writes them.

"Ni con un palo" takes its title from a Spanish idiom roughly equivalent to "not with a ten-foot pole." In Mike's hands it becomes the name of a punishment: the way a narcissistic partner can withhold touch, attention and closeness to control the other person, until the one being punished starts to believe they did something wrong. In his own note on the song he calls it an emotional autopsy and says he wrote it "because silence is also abuse." Many victims never speak, he writes, because "nothing happened." His answer: everything happened.

"La última carta" is quieter and just as sharp. It is a goodbye letter that does not want a reply. The narrator names years of gaslighting and silences, and refuses to hate. Peace, the letter says, comes from cutting contact. Its closing idea is simple: the harm was real, but it no longer belongs to the person who caused it. "This letter isn't for you to read," the text says. "It's so I can close."

"A machine can give me a melody in two minutes," Mike says. "It can't give me those years. People who call my lyrics garbage haven't read them, and that's fine. They're there for anyone who wants to."

Why it matters to American listeners

Arguments about AI and creative work are loud in the United States, and Mike Sain't Louis does not ask anyone to drop their concerns. What he offers is a concrete case: one independent artist, fully open about his tools, building a body of work word by word. For listeners who follow queer music from Spain, and for anyone curious about what AI looks like when a person with something to say stands behind it, his catalogue is a practical place to form an opinion.

The accompanying photo shows him under rain-soaked arcades, lanterns glowing behind him. The look is serious; the songs, often, are not. Many people found him in 2024, when "Tan Cateto" went viral on TikTok.

Listen and download for free

"Ni con un palo," "La última carta" and the rest of Mike Sain't Louis's work can be streamed and downloaded for free at https://mikesaintlouis.com, where every song is published with its full lyrics. His music is also available on Spotify, Deezer and the main streaming platforms. Follow the visual side of PLANETA GAYFOLK on Instagram at @planetagayfolk.

About Mike Sain't Louis

Mike Sain't Louis is a Madrid-based indie alternative artist and self-described "first AI singer-songwriter." Over roughly two years of steady work he has released 273 singles and more than 280 music videos under the banner PLANETA GAYFOLK, culminating in the GAYFOLK trilogy: "Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK," "Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK" and "El día de la liberación," a three-album journey to a planet where everyone can live as they are. His songs, mostly in Spanish but also in English, French and Portuguese, range from electropop and alternative pop to copla and ballads, and deal with love, exes, nosy neighbors, queer life in Spain, liberation and mental health, often explicitly and always without censorship.

Press contact

Mike Sain't Louis Email: info@mikesaintlouis.com Website: https://mikesaintlouis.com Instagram: @planetagayfolk