Same pen, different weather: the Madrid indie artist who makes you laugh at your ex, then writes “Not Your Supply”

Madrid, 25 October 2026

Most people who have heard of Mike Sain't Louis found him through a joke. In 2024 his song “Tan Cateto” went viral on TikTok, and a lot of listeners arrived expecting a novelty act. What they found instead was a Madrid-based alternative indie artist with a catalogue of 273 singles, a sharp tongue, a fondness for camp – and, underneath it all, something much more serious. “Not Your Supply”, one of his English-language songs, is the clearest place to see both sides at once: it has no punchline, and that is precisely the point.

A comedian’s timing, a survivor’s subject

Spend an afternoon with Mike Sain't Louis’s music and you will laugh more than once. He writes about gossiping neighbours, about exes who turn out to be less impressive than advertised, about the small absurdities of queer life in Spain. His lyrics can be outrageous, and some are explicit; that is part of the work rather than an accident of it. The tone runs from electropop to copla, the traditional Spanish song form, and from alternative pop to the slow ballad.

“Not Your Supply” sits in a different register. It is calm, cold and specific. It describes a relationship in which one person exists only to refuel the other – “You call when you are empty / You leave when you are full” – and it does not soften the description with a wink.

“People ask me how the same person can write the silly songs and the dark ones,” says Mike Sain't Louis. “It’s the same story. The funny ones are what I wrote after I got out. ‘Not Your Supply’ is what it felt like while I was still inside.”

The economics of being used

What makes the song stand out is its vocabulary. Rather than talking about heartbreak in the usual way, the lyric borrows the language of transactions. Affection is handled as if it were a business deal; staying around is treated as a loan that will one day be called in. The other person takes whatever can be carried away and abandons the rest.

The chorus then names the role the narrator refuses to keep playing: not a supply, not a drug, not a feed – not a source to be drained so that someone else can feel full. In the second verse, the picture widens. The other person needs a crowded room in order to feel real, and a patient partner on whom to practise every trick. It is a game, they insist, nothing more than attraction. Yet whenever hearts are played with, the lyric observes, it is always the narrator who gets burned.

There is a bleak kind of wit in that framing. It is the wit of someone who has finally understood the rules of a game they were never told they were playing. The bridge, which simply repeats the title four times, works less like a hook than like a sentence someone is practising until they can say it out loud – in the mirror, on the phone, or at the door.

None of this needs decoding. The lines are short, the images are everyday ones, and the logic is merciless. That plainness is a choice. A song about being manipulated would undermine itself if it tried to dazzle; this one simply lays out the accounts and lets the listener check the sums.

Mike Sain't Louis has spoken publicly about why so much of his writing returns to this territory. With professional help, he turns years of relationships with narcissistic partners into music. His aim 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.

That purpose explains why humour and truth are never far apart in his catalogue. The jokes are not a distraction from the pain; they are evidence of having survived it. And the songs without jokes, like this one, are there for the listener who is not yet ready to laugh.

“I don’t want anyone to feel stupid for having stayed,” he says. “I stayed too. If a song can make one person think, ‘Hang on, that’s exactly what is happening to me’, then it has done more than any hit could.”

Who is Mike Sain't Louis?

Mike Sain't Louis describes himself as an alternative indie artist and as “the first AI singer-songwriter”. The second label needs a little explanation, because it is easy to misread. He writes every lyric himself, without exception. He is the songwriter, composer and music producer, the artistic director, and the CEO of his own independent label, which bears his name: MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. There is no record company behind him and no middlemen.

The music and the vocal performance are made with artificial intelligence, which he uses as a production and arranging tool. The voice you hear on his records is AI-generated; it is not his own. What belongs to him is everything that decides what a song is: the words, the idea, the tone and the artistic direction.

In his view the tool may be new, but the job is old: somebody still has to know what the song is about, and that somebody is the writer.

A planet built over two years

All of this lives under one name: PLANETA GAYFOLK. Over roughly two years of work – and he is keen to stress that it was not quick – Mike Sain't Louis has released 273 singles and more than 280 music videos. Most of the songs are in Spanish, but he also writes in English, French and Portuguese, which is how a song like “Not Your Supply” sits naturally in the catalogue.

At the centre of the project is a trilogy of albums designed as a single journey: “Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK” (A new planet called GAYFOLK has been discovered), “Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK” (If only you could travel to GAYFOLK) and “El día de la liberación” (Liberation Day). The destination is a planet where every person can live exactly as they are. Love and heartbreak, exes, nosy neighbours, queer daily life, liberation and mental health are the recurring themes along the way.

Why British listeners may recognise this

British pop has a long tradition of songs that hide something painful inside something bright, and of performers who use camp as armour. Mike Sain't Louis comes out of a different country and a different language, but listeners in the UK are likely to recognise the instinct: say the true thing, and if it is unbearable, make it fabulous.

“Not Your Supply” also arrives at a moment when the vocabulary of emotional abuse – narcissism, manipulation, being treated as a source of attention – has moved out of therapy rooms and into everyday conversation. The song uses that vocabulary without turning it into a lecture. It is written in plain English, short lines and simple images, which makes it easy to follow even for listeners who have never heard of its author.

The photograph that accompanies this release, taken beside a mountain lake, offers a quiet counterpoint to the song’s heat: still water, open air, distance. It looks a lot like the place the narrator is trying to reach.

Where to listen and download for free

Every song by Mike Sain't Louis can be streamed and downloaded free of charge at his official website, mikesaintlouis.com, where each track comes with its full lyrics. There is nothing to pay. Listeners who discover him through “Not Your Supply” can move straight on to the Spanish-language songs, read the words as they listen, and decide for themselves where the laughter ends and the truth begins.

His catalogue is also available on Spotify, Deezer and the other major streaming platforms. The project is on Instagram as @planetagayfolk.

About Mike Sain't Louis

Mike Sain't Louis is a Madrid-based alternative indie artist who presents himself as “the first AI singer-songwriter”. He writes all of his lyrics and uses artificial intelligence as an instrument for music, arrangement and vocals, while keeping the words and the artistic direction firmly his own. Songwriter, composer, producer, artistic director and CEO of the independent label MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, he has released 273 singles and more than 280 music videos under the banner PLANETA GAYFOLK across roughly two years of work. His songs, which move between camp comedy and frank writing about psychological abuse, are free to stream and download at mikesaintlouis.com.

Press contact

Mike Sain't Louis — MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS label Email: info@mikesaintlouis.com Website: https://mikesaintlouis.com Instagram: @planetagayfolk