Where the Shoreline Is the Point: Mike Sain't Louis, the Madrid Songwriter Who Keeps Writing His Way Toward the Water

MADRID — Oct. 25, 2026 — Ask Mike Sain't Louis where his imaginary planet is, and he won't point up. He'll point toward the coast. The Madrid-based indie alternative artist, who presents himself as "the first AI singer-songwriter," has spent about two years building PLANETA GAYFOLK, a universe of 273 singles and more than 280 music videos. It is officially a planet. In spirit, it is a beach.

A boy looking at the horizon

The clue is in one of his own song notes. Writing about "La Playa del Mal Pas," he describes a small beach in Benidorm, tucked between the port and the old town, as his secret refuge. It's where he spent most of the summers he can remember, looking at the horizon, dreaming of escape and feeling, for a moment, that everything fit.

The same note admits that time and pain change the view. That beach also witnessed his heartbreaks. He still goes back, even if only in memory.

"Every wave reminds me of something I'm not anymore," he says, echoing that note, "but also of what I've survived. That's why the sea keeps turning up. It's the place where you can finally stop explaining yourself."

That image, a shoreline as the place you arrive once you've stopped apologizing, runs underneath the GAYFOLK trilogy: "Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK," "Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK" and "El día de la liberación." The journey ends on a planet where everyone can live as they are. For him, that planet has salt in the air.

The man behind the planet

Mike Sain't Louis writes every one of his lyrics. The music and vocal performances are generated with artificial intelligence, a tool he uses for production and arrangements and directs closely, choosing between many versions of each song. He doesn't sing, and he doesn't pretend to. What he owns is the writing, the concept and the artistic direction.

He releases everything through MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, his own independent label, where he is lyricist, composer, producer, artistic director and CEO. No record company, no middlemen. His sound ranges from electropop to copla, the theatrical Spanish song tradition, and from alternative pop to ballads, in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. In 2024, "Tan Cateto" went viral on TikTok, and that's how many listeners first found him.

Leaving the shore you were dragged to

Before you reach the good beach, you have to walk off the bad one. "No te vuelvo a mirar más" ("I'm Never Looking at You Again") is the walking-off song. Its narrator addresses someone who swore respect and spat contempt, who demanded silence and then shouted to the rafters, who apologized with his back turned. The lyric calls the other person's office a circus and accuses him of casting himself as a bargain-basement victim while painting the narrator as the bad one.

The chorus is a list of refusals: I don't pick up what you throw, I don't give back what you give, I don't stay in your lies. "No te vuelvo a mirar más." I won't look at you again. The song closes by claiming the last word: the rules are mine now.

It's the tide going out. And it fits a purpose he has spoken about openly: with professional support, he turns years of relationships with narcissistic partners into songs, to make psychological abuse and its effect on mental health visible, and so people who've lived it feel seen and believed.

A mythic girl, dancing on the rooftops

If "No te vuelvo a mirar más" is the departure, his version of "La Tarara" is the party on arrival. His version is a tribute to Marisol, and Mike Sain't Louis is clear that it is no simple cover. He calls it an act of love, memory and irreverence, because Marisol, as he puts it, was many things but above all freedom, and on his planet freedom gets celebrated.

In his version, the Tarara dances among neon lights, high heels and futuristic rooftops: a pop and queer revision of the myth, made with respect and with nerve. Childhood turned into resistance; tradition remixed with synthesizers.

"On Planet GayFolk you don't copy," he says. "You reinvent." He dedicates the track to Marisol, to the women who danced when it wasn't allowed, and to everyone still dancing even though it still bothers some people.

If the trilogy's beaches have a mythic woman waiting on them, she might well look like this Tarara: a girl from an old song, now in heels.

Why it reaches American listeners

The United States has its own long romance with the coast as a place of reinvention, from surf songs to the idea of heading west until the land runs out. Mike Sain't Louis works from Madrid, mostly in Spanish, but that desire to reach the water and start over is universal. For the many Spanish-speaking households across the country, songs like "La Tarara" may also carry family memories of their own.

The photo accompanying this profile shows him among rows of vinyl records, the old way of keeping songs. Fittingly, he wants his to be kept, too.

Listen and download for free

"No te vuelvo a mirar más," "La Tarara" and the entire catalogue are free to stream and download at https://mikesaintlouis.com, lyrics included. The songs are also on Spotify, Deezer and the major platforms.

About Mike Sain't Louis

Mike Sain't Louis is a Madrid indie alternative artist known as "the first AI singer-songwriter," the label he chose for himself. A writer first, he pairs his own lyrics with AI-generated music and vocals that he produces and directs, releasing everything on MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, the independent label he leads as CEO. His PLANETA GAYFOLK project mixes humor, camp and heartbreak, and every song is free.

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