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How to listen to a song written for a stranger: a step-by-step guide to “El descarte del narcisista” by Mike Sain't Louis
The Madrid-based indie alternative artist who calls himself “the first AI singer-songwriter” wrote a break-up song that isn't addressed to the ex at all, but to the next person he hurt. Here is how to hear it, from the cover to the moment two exes compare notes
MADRID, 25 October 2026 — Most break-up songs are monologues: I'm hurting, you hurt me, I hope it goes badly for you. “El descarte del narcisista” (“The narcissist's discard”) by Mike Sain't Louis starts somewhere else entirely. It reads like a letter to a stranger: someone who is crying alone right now, in the place where the narrator used to be.
Mike Sain't Louis is an indie alternative artist based in Madrid who presents himself as “the first AI singer-songwriter”. He writes all of his own lyrics and directs every release on his independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. The music and vocal performance are made with artificial intelligence as a production tool; he does not sing, and the voice on the record is AI-generated. In a new post on his blog, titled “Conmigo también” (“He did it to me too”), he looks at the moment this song turns on: the day two people who went through the same man sit down and realise they were told different stories.
What follows is a practical guide to listening to it, in six steps.
Step 1: Start with the cover, not the audio
Before pressing play, look at the artwork. It is night and rain is pouring onto a road. In the foreground, lying on the wet tarmac, is a man in a torn and stained blue suit, his cheek against the ground and his tattooed hand open, as if he has just fallen. Behind him, standing by the car, another man dressed in black leather is laughing his head off in the rain, one hand in his pocket. In the top corner, the word DESCARTE is printed in red.
The image leaves little room for interpretation. One man is on the ground. The other is laughing. The engine is running. “Discard”, in the most literal sense: leaving someone at the roadside and driving on.
Step 2: Notice who the song is talking to
Listen to the first lines with one question in mind: who is “you”? It isn't the narcissist, at least not at first, and it isn't the narrator talking about himself. It's someone else, a person who is crying on their own and doesn't understand what has happened.
That word “too” is the key, Mike writes. What links the two people isn't friendship or family. It's a shared experience, and the narrator recognises it from the outside because he has lived it.
Step 3: Listen for the loneliness that comes afterwards
The first verse describes, with real precision, what it feels like straight after a relationship like this. The person thinks nobody supports them, nobody understands them, that everyone is lying, “incluso tu gente”, even your own people.
Mike calls that last part the most painful. When someone has spent a long time with a person who manipulates, it is common for them to end up distrusting everyone: friends, family, whoever tries to help. If someone you trusted that much was lying, why wouldn't the rest? The damage doesn't stay inside the relationship. It spreads to all the others, and leaves the person alone at the moment they most need company.
Step 4: Count the lies
Then comes what Mike describes as the heart of the song. The hardest thing to accept, it says, is having believed so much falsehood. And it lists them:
“edad, nacionalidad, color de ojos”
Age, nationality, eye colour. Then the senior job title, being the boss of everything. It's a strange list, and that's where its force lies. These aren't grand lies about feelings. They are basic facts that nobody normally questions. The eye colour detail is the one that unsettles Mike most. How do you lie about the colour of your eyes? With contact lenses, filters, retouched photos. A lie you can see with your own eyes, and believe anyway.
Step 5: Imagine the conversation between two exes
The song's page on his blog says the disillusionment doesn't arrive all at once but piece by piece. Mike adds something: often you don't find those pieces on your own. Someone else hands them to you.
That's what happens when two exes talk. One says: he told me he was this old. The other replies: he told me something else. One says he was from here; the other, from somewhere different. Fact by fact, the character each of them knew comes apart, and what looked like a person turns out to be a costume that changed for every audience.
Step 6: Put it in context
The song sits on “Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK”, the second album of his GAYFOLK trilogy, and it is number 80 in the full list of his singles. It belongs to a thread that runs through his work: with professional support, Mike turns years of relationships with narcissistic partners into music, to make psychological abuse and its marks on mental health visible, and so that people who live through it feel seen and believed.
Why it matters to UK listeners
Words like “gaslighting” and “love-bombing” have moved into everyday conversation in Britain, and plenty of listeners will recognise the pattern Mike describes without needing a word of Spanish. The lyrics are in Spanish, but the structure is universal: a letter from one survivor to the next. The photograph that accompanies this guide places him in an empty theatre among rows of red seats, which suits a song about the moment the performance ends and the audience finally compares notes.
Where to listen
“El descarte del narcisista” and every other track by Mike Sain't Louis can be streamed and downloaded free at https://mikesaintlouis.com, with full lyrics on each song's page. His music is also on Spotify, Deezer and the main streaming platforms. Read the full post (in Spanish) on his blog: https://mikesaintlouis.com/blog/conmigo-tambien-el-descarte-del-narcisista-y-el-dia-que-dos-exes-comparan-notas
About Mike Sain't Louis
Mike Sain't Louis is a lyricist, composer, music producer and the self-styled “first AI singer-songwriter”, an indie alternative artist working from Madrid with no record company and no middlemen. In about two years he has released 273 singles and more than 280 music videos for PLANETA GAYFOLK, gathered into the trilogy “Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK”, “Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK” and “El día de la liberación”. His queer alternative pop runs from electropop to copla and ballad, in Spanish as well as English, French and Portuguese, and many listeners found him in 2024 when “Tan Cateto” went viral on TikTok.
Press contact
Mike Sain't Louis Email: info@mikesaintlouis.com Website: https://mikesaintlouis.com Instagram: @planetagayfolk