MADRID, Spain, October 24, 2026. Countries mark the day they became free with fireworks, parades and speeches. People rarely get to do the same for the day they walked out of a relationship that was harming them. "El día de la liberación" ("Liberation Day"), a track by Mike Sain't Louis, proposes exactly that: a public holiday for one person, declared loudly and with a sense of humour.
The opening line sets the tone of an official proclamation: «Hoy es el día / De la liberación». Today is liberation day. And the next lines announce the result of a contest that is now over: «El día en el que ya hay un vencedor / Y no eres tú manipulador perdedor». There is a winner, and it is not the manipulator.
**Why celebrate out loud**
Recovery from emotional abuse is usually described in quiet terms: therapy sessions, small steps, slow rebuilding. All of that is real. But there is another part of the process that gets less attention, the moment when someone realises they are out and feels an enormous, almost physical relief. "El día de la liberación" is written for that moment.
The chorus turns it into a collective chant: «Gritemos con fuerza / ¡somos libres!» Let us shout it loudly: we are free. The plural matters. The song does not only describe one narrator's escape; it invites everyone who has been through something similar to join in. On Planeta Gayfolk, the imaginary queer world at the centre of Mike Sain't Louis's work, freedom is a party with guests.
**The wounds that have stopped bleeding**
Under the festive surface, the lyric is precise about what liberation means. «El día en el que ya no sale / sangre / De todas las heridas que ayer causaste.» It is the day when the wounds caused yesterday no longer bleed. The image does not deny the damage. It locates it in the past and declares that it has stopped.
That distinction between "the harm happened" and "the harm is over" is at the core of many accounts of recovery, and the song expresses it in one compact sentence that is easy to remember and easy to shout.
**Humour as a weapon**
What makes "El día de la liberación" unmistakably Planeta Gayfolk is its comedy. Having declared victory, the narrator offers the former partner some practical advice about their new life: «Que te cocine ahora tu madre / o nútrete con un bote de pringles». Let your mother cook for you now, or live on a tube of crisps.
The joke works on several levels. It deflates the manipulator, reducing a figure who once seemed powerful to someone who cannot feed himself. It points at a familiar dynamic in which one partner did all the caring work. And it uses laughter as a form of distance. It is hard to fear someone you can picture eating crisps out of the tube for dinner.
The contrast is completed by the narrator's own situation: «Yo feliz en Benidorm». While the other person searches for a new source of attention, the narrator is happy on the Mediterranean coast. Benidorm, which appears across the catalogue as one of the planet's favourite places, becomes the capital of this one-person republic.
**A ballroom of capes in the open air**
The official video expands the holiday into a visual spectacle. A dancer in long, sweeping skirts turns through wheat fields, lavender meadows and the halls of an old palace, while strange glowing structures and flying craft hover on the horizon. The capes change colour from turquoise to blue to red, and the movement never stops. And yes, the tube of crisps makes an appearance too, standing proudly in the sand.
The photograph that accompanies this release is a still from the video: a figure seen from behind, walking away through a golden wheat field in a bright red cape, towards an old stone ruin and a glowing structure in the sky. It is a picture of someone leaving, and not looking back.
**One step in a longer road**
"El día de la liberación" belongs to a larger group of songs in which Mike Sain't Louis explores emotional manipulation from many angles, some furious, some reflective, some openly comic. This is the triumphant one. It works as a reminder that the end of a harmful relationship is not only a loss. It can also be a day worth marking on the calendar.
For anyone who is not yet at that point, the song offers a glimpse of what is waiting on the other side. Leaving is hard, and nobody should have to do it alone; friends, professionals and support services can help. But the day does come.
**Free for everyone**
The track can be downloaded at no cost and without registration from the downloads page on mikesaintlouis.com and from the free shop on gayfolkplanet.com, together with the rest of the catalogue. The full lyric is published unaltered on gayfolkplanet.com next to the official video.
- Lyric and video: https://gayfolkplanet.com/letras/el-dia-de-la-liberacion
- About the song (in Spanish): https://mikesaintlouis.com/blog/el-dia-de-la-liberacion
- Free downloads: https://mikesaintlouis.com/descargas
- Free shop: https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda
About Mike Sain't Louis: creator of GAYFOLK and Planeta Gayfolk and the first AI songwriter («el primer cantautor IA»), based in Madrid. He works as lyricist, composer and music producer and writes all his lyrics; the music and vocal performance are made with AI. Label: MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. Distribution: Ditto Music. Website: https://mikesaintlouis.com · Press: https://gayfolkplanet.com/prensa · Free downloads: https://mikesaintlouis.com/descargas and https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda