Mike Sain’t Louis / GAYFOLK: Why He Gave His Songs a Planet
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Why Mike Sain’t Louis gave his songs a planet
Mike writes the lyrics and directs the project. He uses AI to generate the music and vocals. What caught my attention was the decision he made around all of it. He gave the songs a place to belong.
The way into GAYFOLK is through a bad night in Benidorm—one Mike invented. In “La primera drag de Benidorm,” a fictional drag performer breaks her heels and keeps dancing. She stands for performers who came before, not for a documented person who was literally the city’s first.
Mike created her as a tribute to performers whose names may never be remembered. The heels are broken, the night has gone badly, and she dances anyway. That choice gives the song its character. ViveBenidorm covered the release on November 7, 2026, focusing on its homage to the performers who helped open doors in the city. The setting is real. The central character is fiction.
01 / The world
Then you get to the planet.
Planeta Gayfolk is Mike’s fictional queer world, built across three albums: Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK (discovery), Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK (the desire to reach it), and El día de la liberación (liberation). Songs, lyrics, videos and the larger invented setting give different characters and musical styles a place to belong.
Act I
Discovery
Descubierto un nuevo planeta llamado GAYFOLK establishes the imagined world where the songs can meet.
Act II
The desire to go
Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK turns discovery into the longing to reach that world.
Act III
Liberation
El día de la liberación is the trilogy’s third album. Liberation creates possibility, but it does not erase everything its characters have lived through.
What interests me about Mike’s three-part arc is how the question changes: first discovering a place, then wanting to reach it, and finally asking what freedom might mean once it arrives. That last step is not a simple happy ending. Mike describes Before the Bells as holding hope and sorrow together—the feeling of what came before still present inside the hope of release.
02 / The listening route
Two songs to start with
Start with the fictional performer in Benidorm, then move to “Before the Bells” from the trilogy’s third album. The first is a story of persistence and an homage to earlier performers. The second approaches liberation without pretending that grief disappears.
“La primera drag de Benidorm”
Follow a fictional performer through Benidorm. The decision to keep dancing, despite the broken heels, is the heart of Mike’s tribute—not a biographical claim about a specific person.
“Before the Bells”
The song opens with the Spanish lament “Ay, mi pena” before moving into English. Mike says the shift does not remove the sadness: it belongs here, on El día de la liberación, because freedom offers hope without erasing what someone has lived through. Listen for how those two ideas can exist together.
Lyrics and creative direction by MIKE SAIN’T LOUIS / Planeta Gayfolk. Music and vocals generated with AI.
03 / The creator’s decision
Give someone a reason to find the next song
If someone finds one song you made, what gives them a reason to look for the next one?
Based in Móstoles, near Madrid, Mike writes every lyric and directs GAYFOLK. The music and vocals are AI-generated. I asked him whether he could point to a lyric revision or a particular production take. Rather than invent a neat anecdote, he brought me back to the question that matters: does the finished song communicate what he intended? A beautiful-sounding voice can still miss the emotion. His writing and judgment connect the songs across three albums, with the fictional planet giving listeners a reason to follow the next one.
Follow the story: Explore Planeta Gayfolk · Visit Mike’s artist website · Browse the artist’s free-download collection.
