The Joke the Machine Can’t Tell: Five Songs by Mike Sain't Louis That Prove Camp Is a Human Job

Madrid, 25 October 2026 – There is a question Mike Sain't Louis gets asked with a slightly triumphant look, as if the interviewer has caught him out: if artificial intelligence makes the music, what stops it making the jokes as well? His answer: wit is not manufactured, it is committed.

Mike Sain't Louis is an indie alternative artist based in Madrid who calls himself "the first AI singer-songwriter". He writes every lyric, and works as composer, music producer, artistic director and CEO of his independent label, MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. The music and vocal performances are generated with Suno, a tool he directs by choosing, discarding and asking again. He does not sing. Over roughly two years he has released 273 singles and more than 280 music videos under the name PLANETA GAYFOLK, a catalogue known in Spain for its cheek, its camp and its refusal to be censored.

"The tool has processed millions of songs, so it knows what a joke looks like," he says. "It knows the shape. It's like knowing the recipe for a dish you've never tasted. Irony isn't a shape. It's what you say, what you leave out and what the other person already knows. A wink with nobody to receive it is just a twitch."

Five songs make his case.

1. "Chihuahua"

Start with the most innocent-looking track in the list, written in English. On paper, "Chihuahua" is a straightforward disco number: lights flash, the floor comes alive, the DJ spins, and the singer's little friend with bright eyes taps its paws in time. The chorus is an invitation to dance "under the disco light", ending with the instruction to "bark it out" and "move your feet".

The joke is that it is played completely straight: a club anthem whose dance partner happens to be a very small dog, with no wink at all. That deadpan commitment is the essence of camp: exaggeration that is fully aware of itself. Mike lives with chihuahuas. A machine can produce a disco track about anything; deciding to address it to a dog is a choice.

2. "Ese Pinocho nunca me comía el chocho"

The title of the second pick is a rhyming Spanish kiss-off too explicit to translate politely in a press release. What can be said is that the "Pinocho" is an ex, and the long nose tells you exactly what kind of ex. The song opens with a line any British listener who has watched a scandal unfold will appreciate: "Se te está cayendo el relato", your story is falling apart.

The ex expected to find the narrator destroyed, begging him to come back. Surprise: he isn't. What follows is a catalogue of insults delivered with music-hall timing, ending in a borrowed Spanish road-safety catchphrase repurposed as a cheeky warning about protection. "That song only works if you know exactly who's being laughed at and why," Mike says. "There's no prompt for that."

3. "El productor de Madonna no compra en Mercadona"

The third song answers critics of AI directly, with a chant of "IA, IA" and a reminder, in the lyric, that Madonna's producer Mirwais has been using such tools for twenty years and the queen still wears her crown. Then the song turns into a break-up story. The ex loved Madonna, who was "like Rexona, it never lets you down", borrowing the old deodorant slogan. The narrator's response: he has switched to Mercadona's own brand, and it works just as well.

In one couplet a pop icon becomes a toiletry and heartbreak is settled in a supermarket aisle.

4. "Mi último ex era una IA disfrazada"

The fourth pick turns the debate on its head. The song suggests it might be better to create a boyfriend with artificial intelligence, because an AI boyfriend would always tell the truth, answer sincerely and never cheat. Then comes the twist, delivered with mock astonishment: so was my last ex an AI in disguise? One whose betrayal chip happened to be faulty?

"People think I'm defending the machines," Mike says. "I'm using them to have a go at men." The humour points somewhere specific, which is exactly what he says generated comedy cannot do. Ask a tool for something "funny", he says, and you get office-birthday-card nice: harmless because it aims at nothing.

5. "La ley de la exageración"

The last song names the method: "Sí, yo soy la ley de la exageración" (yes, I am the law of exaggeration). It builds on a nursery-rhyme count, one and one make two, to describe two thieves who stole years of his life, two narcissists, "one a victim-saviour and the other the low-cost version".

Behind the camp is a serious purpose. With professional support, Mike Sain't Louis turns years of relationships with narcissistic partners into songs, to make narcissistic and psychological abuse visible and to help those who have lived through it feel seen and believed. Exaggeration here is not decoration; it is how someone who was told for years that he was overreacting takes the word back and wears it as a title.

Why British ears will get it

Britain has a long tradition of humour built on innuendo, from seaside postcards to panel shows. Mike Sain't Louis is loud rather than understated, but the mechanism is familiar: the line that says one thing and means another. For UK listeners curious about independent queer music from Spain, these five songs are a quick way in.

Many people discovered him in 2024, when "Tan Cateto" went viral on TikTok. The accompanying photograph shows him above the rooftops at sunset: a calm face for an artist whose lyrics rarely are.

Where to listen

All five songs, and the rest of the catalogue, are free to stream and download at https://mikesaintlouis.com, each with its full lyrics. His music is also on Spotify, Deezer and the main streaming platforms. Instagram: @planetagayfolk.

About Mike Sain't Louis

A Madrid-based indie alternative artist, Mike Sain't Louis writes the words and directs everything else, using AI as his instrument for music and vocals. His PLANETA GAYFOLK project spans electropop, alternative pop, copla and ballads, in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese, and is anchored by the GAYFOLK trilogy, three albums imagined as one journey to a planet where everyone can live as they are: "Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK", "Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK" and "El día de la liberación".

Press contact

Mike Sain't Louis Email: info@mikesaintlouis.com Website: https://mikesaintlouis.com