\"I Vaccinate Myself Against the Comments\": Mike Sain't Louis on Writing a Rap When He Is Clearly Not a Rapper

Madrid, October 25, 2026.

The first line of the song is an admission. The second line is a defense. In "Narci de cutre culebrón" (roughly "Narcissist of a Cheap Soap Opera"), Mike Sain't Louis announces that today he felt like trying a rap, and immediately adds that he knows people will criticize him, because he is obviously not Bizarrap, the Argentine producer whose sessions have dominated Spanish-language streaming. He even splits the name into syllables, bi-za-rrap, the way you would spell out a tricky surname at a government office.

Mike Sain't Louis is an indie alternative artist based in Madrid who presents himself as the first AI singer-songwriter. He writes every lyric; the music and the vocal performance are generated with artificial intelligence under his direction. His project, PLANETA GAYFOLK, gathers 273 singles and more than 280 music videos made over roughly two years. We talked about his new blog essay on the right to look ridiculous.

On the pre-emptive strike

You open the song by predicting the criticism. Why put that in the very first line?

So nobody could beat me to it. I call it the vaccine. You give yourself a small dose of the virus so your body knows how to fight the real one. If I say I'm not Bizarrap, you can't say it to me anymore. And if you say it anyway, you're just the person repeating what's already in the lyrics.

Where did you learn that move?

From reading comments. When you release as much as I do, every song comes with its own little chorus of people telling you it isn't music, it's garbage, it's a button somebody pressed. I wrote a whole piece about what negative comments taught me. One lesson was simple: if you laugh first, the other person's laugh loses its punch.

On not being a rapper

Be honest. Is this your genre?

Not at all. I have no hip hop past. I can't freestyle in a park with a Bluetooth speaker and twenty kids around me. My musical home is copla, nineties and two-thousands pop, the radio divas, electropop. The "About" page on my site says melodies that go from electropop to copla, from alternative pop to ballad. It says nothing about rap.

So why rap?

Because I needed what rap does better than anything else. Rap is the genre of settling scores. "I'm going to tell you what I think of you, to your face, in rhyme." From freestyle battles to the big producer sessions, rap is where you go to unload on someone with a name and a face. And I had a score to settle with a very handsome dark-haired guy.

On the soap opera

The title calls him a narcissist from a cheap soap opera. Why that image?

Because some narcissists are elegant and some are tacky. The elegant ones get copla. The tacky ones, the fake profile, the hiding in the bushes, they get a neighborhood rap. A daytime soap is the perfect frame: the plot twist, the unmasking, the villain who turns out to be a forgery. The chorus goes up a ladder of nicknames and lands on the reveal that it was all a fake.

There's a reference to Leire in there too.

Yes, the line says that, like Leire, I need to get it off my chest. That's the point of the whole track: saying it out loud and feeling lighter afterward.

On being a genre tourist

This isn't your only trip outside your neighborhood.

I'm a genre tourist with a suitcase that's always half packed. There are songs in English, like "Sing me a sad song" and "Dreams drift afar." There's French in "Dans la nuit," Portuguese in "Sol e lua," and even a German title, "Sonne und Wind," which, honestly, what is a lyricist from Madrid doing with a German title? There's chill out, reggae, electropop, ballads, coplas with a mean streak, rumbas. And now a rap.

Collecting genres like stamps?

No. Every story asks for its own outfit. Some can only be told in a flamenco dress with a long train, others want a tracksuit and a backwards cap. It's wardrobe, like in theater.

What stays the same?

The lyrics. The lyrics rule. It doesn't matter if it's reggae or copla: what's being said and how it's said is mine. That's a house rule, and I follow it even when I'm wearing the cap.

On being transparent

How do you explain the AI part to new listeners?

Straight away. I'm a lyricist, composer and music producer, with music and vocal performance made with AI. I don't perform the songs. The words, the ideas and the artistic direction are mine. I'd rather people know that from me than discover it later.

Why American listeners might care

Most of your songs are in Spanish. What's in it for someone in the U.S.?

Spanish is everywhere in American music now, so a lot of people already have the ear for it. And the feeling is universal. Everybody has met a fake. Everybody has wanted to say something to someone's face and didn't. This is me doing it, badly on purpose, and laughing at myself first.

Where to listen

Every Mike Sain't Louis song, including "Narci de cutre culebrón," streams and downloads free at https://mikesaintlouis.com, each with its full lyrics. The catalog is also on Spotify, Deezer and the major platforms. More on his blog: https://mikesaintlouis.com/blog/el-derecho-a-hacer-el-ridiculo-mi-rap-sin-ser-bizarrap

About Mike Sain't Louis

Mike Sain't Louis is an indie alternative artist working out of Madrid and the self-described first AI singer-songwriter. Lyricist, composer, producer, art director and CEO of his own independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, he works with no record company and no middlemen. His GAYFOLK trilogy, "Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK," "Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK" and "El día de la liberación," follows a journey to a planet where everyone can live exactly as they are. In 2024 his song "Tan Cateto" went viral on TikTok.

Press contact

Email: info@mikesaintlouis.com Website: https://mikesaintlouis.com Instagram: @planetagayfolk