Blushing at a policeman, losing a boyfriend to a stranger's name: how Mike Sain't Louis writes about love

Madrid, 25 October 2026 – Ask Mike Sain't Louis what love looks like and he will probably not hand you a sunset. He will hand you a laundrette, a policeman offering a coffee, and a face going bright red. Or he will hand you a relationship so worn out that all it needs now is a headstone and a spade. The Madrid-based indie alternative artist, who calls himself ‘the first AI singer-songwriter’, has written about love from almost every angle across his catalogue – and almost never head-on.

This is a profile of how he does it.

The man and the method

Mike Sain't Louis writes every one of his lyrics. He is also composer, music producer, artistic director and CEO of his own independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS – no record company behind him, no middlemen. The music and vocal performances are generated with artificial intelligence, which he treats as a production and arranging tool: he chooses, discards and asks again until a version serves the words. The voice on his records is not his. The writing, the idea and the artistic direction are.

Over about two years that method has produced PLANETA GAYFOLK: 273 singles and more than 280 music videos. At its centre sits a trilogy designed as a single journey – ‘Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK’, ‘Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK’ and ‘El día de la liberación’ – towards a planet where everyone can live exactly as they are. Stylistically it runs from electropop to copla, from alternative pop to ballad, mostly in Spanish but also in English, French and Portuguese.

The photograph with this piece catches him mid-stride on a stone bridge at sunset, in a dark bomber jacket over a white T-shirt, with the river and the lamplight behind him and a domed building on the skyline. He is looking off to one side, as if something has just caught his eye. That, as it turns out, is a fair summary of his love songs.

Hearts: falling for the wrong man, again

‘Me he enamorado de un policía que es dueño de una lavandería’ – I’ve fallen for a policeman who owns a laundrette – is a title that does half the work before the song begins. ‘Otra vez hice lo que no debía’, it opens: once again I did what I shouldn’t. The policeman has a gorgeous wife and well-mannered children. The narrator, by his own admission, has no great love for the police. And yet this one is a revelation. He offers a coffee out of politeness, and the narrator turns so red that all he can manage is: don’t worry, I’m fine.

It is a comic song, and a cheeky one, but at its heart is a very ordinary moment: the crush you know is hopeless, the blush you can’t hide, and the decision to write about it anyway because, as the lyric shrugs, surely nothing will come of writing a song.

‘Most love songs are about the big moment,’ Mike says. ‘I’m more interested in the small, ridiculous ones. The coffee you can’t accept because your face has gone the colour of a tomato. That’s where people actually live.’

Eyes: watching a relationship end

‘Scott Bonehill’ is the other side of the coin. Here the narrator is not blushing; he is apologising. It’s not you, it’s me, the lyric begins, and I don’t want to be a nuisance – you know my self-esteem is very low. The partner no longer hugs him. The relationship, he says, now lacks only a headstone, a spade and a gravedigger on a very bad night. All that is left is to open it up, and the worst part is that the other one is right.

Then comes the turn. Perhaps I’m not modern enough, perhaps I’m going straight to hell, perhaps I’m always bitter – but I’m not ready. The first time they tried, one summer, the partner ended up falling for someone else: the man whose name gives the song its title.

The song is short and painfully plain. There is no villain here, only two people looking at the same relationship and seeing different things. For an artist best known for funny, furious songs about exes, it is a reminder that some of his most honest writing is about his own uncertainty.

‘People think I only write revenge songs,’ he says. ‘But a lot of my songs are me asking whether it was my fault. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes it’s complicated.’

The bigger picture

Mike has said publicly that, with professional help, he turns years of relationships with narcissistic partners into music, to give visibility to narcissistic and psychological abuse and the marks it leaves on mental health, so that people going through it feel seen and believed. That purpose runs beneath even his lightest songs. Love on PLANETA GAYFOLK is rarely simple: it is a crush, a compromise, a betrayal, a recovery.

British listeners may find something familiar in that. The UK has a long tradition of songwriters who find the drama in the mundane – the bus stop, the kitchen table, the launderette – and of queer pop that can be funny and heartbroken in the same breath. Mike Sain't Louis writes from Madrid, in Spanish more often than not, but the instinct is recognisable.

Listen and download

All of Mike Sain't Louis’s music can be streamed and downloaded free at https://mikesaintlouis.com, every song with its full lyrics. It is also on Spotify, Deezer and the main streaming platforms. Many listeners first came across him in 2024, when ‘Tan Cateto’ went viral on TikTok.

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’. He writes all his own lyrics, directs every release and runs his independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, single-handedly. His PLANETA GAYFOLK universe – 273 singles, more than 280 videos and a three-album trilogy – is queer, camp, uncensored and funny, and covers love, heartbreak, exes, nosy neighbours, queer life in Spain, liberation and mental health.

Press contact

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