A Small Beach and a House Full of Ghosts: A Listener's Guide to Two Songs Mike Sain't Louis Wrote About Surviving Narcissistic Abuse

Madrid, October 25, 2026

Some songs you put on in the background. These two ask for a little more of you. Mike Sain't Louis, an indie alternative artist based in Madrid who introduces himself as “the first AI singer-songwriter,” has said publicly that, with professional help, he is turning years of relationships with narcissistic partners into music. His goal is to make narcissistic and psychological abuse visible, along with the marks it leaves on mental health, so that people living through it feel seen and believed.

He writes every lyric himself. The music and the vocal performance are generated with artificial intelligence, a production and arrangement tool he directs take by take. The words, the concept and the artistic direction are his. Over roughly two years he has built PLANETA GAYFOLK, a catalog of 273 singles and more than 280 music videos, released through his own independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, with no record company and no middlemen.

What follows is a practical guide to two songs from that catalog. One is a whisper. The other is a scream with a punchline. Together they map out the strange territory that comes after you get out.

Step 1: Choose your moment

Don't start with these on a commute with half your attention. Pick a time when you can actually listen, ideally with the lyrics open. Every song on mikesaintlouis.com comes with its full lyrics, and both of these are in Spanish, so a translation app on the side is your friend.

“I write for people who've been told for years that they're imagining things,” Mike says. “The least I can do is make the words clear. If you're going to listen to one of these, read along. The lyric is the song.”

Step 2: Start with the quiet one

Begin with «La Playa del Mal Pas». Mal Pas is a real, small beach in Benidorm, on Spain's Mediterranean coast, tucked between the harbor and the old town. In his note on the song, Mike describes it as his secret refuge, the place where he spent most of the summers he remembers, staring at the horizon, dreaming of escape and feeling, for a moment, that everything fit.

Then the note turns. On that same beach, he writes, he discovered what narcissism was, and later something he calls double narcissism. Time and pain changed the way he looked at the place.

What to listen for: not anger, but distance. Mike describes the song as looking at the beach from far away. The beach is still the same, even though he isn't. Each wave reminds him of something he no longer is, and also of what he has survived. He ends the note by suggesting that this, too, might be a kind of love.

Tip: notice how a place can hold two memories at once. If you have a beach, a street or a kitchen like that, this is the song that will find it.

Step 3: Now turn it up

Next, put on «La Casa de los Mil Cadáveres», “The House of a Thousand Corpses.” The tone flips completely. This is a breakup told as a horror-comedy, packed with Spanish slang and furious one-liners. The narrator keeps asking how he could have been so foolish, catalogs the betrayals the ex thought were hidden, and arrives at a declaration:

Hoy te he olvidado y te he enterrado (“Today I've forgotten you and buried you”)

He compares himself to Pepi Valladares in the house of the title. Then come the regrets, framed as a chain of “if only I had known”: if he'd seen through that innocent little face, if he'd caught the lies at the start, he could have spared himself the suffering.

What to listen for: the laugh at the end. The last section has the narrator laughing at his own bad luck, glad to lose the ex for good, and signing off by calling him a cockroach. Before that, one line sums up the whole arc:

He aprendido la lección (“I've learned the lesson”)

Heads-up: the lyrics are explicit in places. That bluntness is part of Mike's work, and part of the point. Abuse is often polite on the surface. This song refuses to be.

Step 4: Play them back to back

Here's the payoff. Listen to the beach song, then the haunted house, then the beach again. You'll hear two stages of the same recovery: the stunned quiet when you first understand what happened, and the loud, almost giddy release when you're finally allowed to be angry.

“People expect survivors to be either broken or wise,” Mike says. “Nobody tells you that you'll also be ridiculous, furious and funny. I wanted songs for all of it.”

Step 5: Look after yourself

If these songs land close to home, take a break between them. Talk to someone you trust. Mike is clear that his songs were made alongside professional help, not instead of it. In the United States, the National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233) also supports people facing emotional and psychological abuse.

Where these songs fit

Both belong to PLANETA GAYFOLK, Mike's queer alternative pop universe, which runs from electropop to Spanish copla and from alt-pop to ballads, in Spanish and also in English, French and Portuguese. Its backbone is the GAYFOLK trilogy, three albums built as one journey: «Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK», «Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK» and «El día de la liberación», a trip toward a planet where everyone can live exactly as they are.

The photo with this guide fits the mood: Mike sitting in the dunes at sunset, sand everywhere, the light going gold. Not quite the beach of the song, but close enough to feel the wind.

Listen and download for free

Every song by Mike Sain't Louis can be streamed and downloaded free at [mikesaintlouis.com](https://mikesaintlouis.com), each one with its lyrics. His music is also on Spotify, Deezer and the major platforms. Instagram: @planetagayfolk.

About Mike Sain't Louis

Mike Sain't Louis is a Madrid-based indie alternative artist and self-described “first AI singer-songwriter.” He is the lyricist, composer, producer, artistic director and CEO of his own label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. Many listeners found him in 2024, when «Tan Cateto» went viral on TikTok. His songs tackle love, heartbreak, exes, nosy neighbors, queer life in Spain, liberation and mental health, with humor and camp.

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