MADRID, Spain, October 24, 2026. Planeta Gayfolk, the queer musical universe created by Madrid-based lyricist, composer and music producer Mike Sain't Louis, speaks mostly Spanish. Its jokes are full of Madrid slang, its characters shop at Spanish supermarkets and its satire depends on local references. Yet a small group of songs speaks English, and they are worth highlighting for anyone outside Spain who wants to start exploring. As with the whole catalogue, Mike Sain't Louis writes the lyrics, composes and produces, while the music and the vocal performance are made with AI. He calls himself the first AI songwriter.
These songs are not translations of Spanish originals. Each was written in English, or in a deliberate blend of English and Spanish, for a story that needed it. Here are three of them, each opening a different door.
Door one: a secret love in the America of 1932
«The Great Depression» is the most literary track in the English-language group, a short historical novel in song form. It opens with a vivid, almost cinematic stanza: «October bit like cheap gin in the throat, / I read the numbers in my fraying coat». The setting is the economic collapse of the early 1930s, with headlines screaming, men holding their hats «like they held their pride», and a storefront radio coughing out jazz.
In the middle of that crowd, two men find each other. The lyric captures the first moment with remarkable restraint: «But you leaned in close, not quite a kiss, / And that was the first crash: wanting this». The word «crash» does double duty, recalling the stock market and the sudden fall into love.
The second verse moves indoors, to «Tuesday nights above a bar», a narrow rented room where a tie hangs «neat on a kitchen hook». It is a small, domestic happiness built in secret, and it is threatened by the watchful neighbour, Mrs. Crowley, «always at the rail», who sees one of them leave too late.
The chorus turns the historical name into an emotional one. «This is the Great Depression» refers both to the era and to the grief of a love that cannot be lived openly. Its key line is moving in its precision: «I learn what love is worth / when it's taken, not betrayed». The lovers do not betray each other; the world takes their love away.
The final verse is a quiet piece of queer history. History books, the narrator says, will write about banks and bread, but «They won't write how you fixed my cuff, / How "friend" was never word enough». For generations, same-sex partners were recorded as friends, roommates or companions, if they were recorded at all. The song gives one of those invisible couples a place in the story, ending with the image of a love kept «folded in my chest, / A quiet headline no one guessed».
Door two: a bilingual night by the Mediterranean
If «The Great Depression» is a novel, «Barcelona» is a postcard. It is a dance track that switches between English and Spanish line by line, set on a hot night by the sea: «Late night, city lights, Barcelona's glow». The Spanish phrases arrive inside the English ones as if overheard in a club, and they are some of the most memorable hooks of the song: «Turn the beat up, feel the rush, "acércate a mí"».
The lyric is all movement and touch, with hands on waists, steps in the sand and a night that wraps around the dancers: «"La noche nos envuelve," let's not let it end». Its chorus is simple enough for anyone to join in, regardless of the language they speak, built around the repeated name of the city and «tú y yo», you and me.
For international listeners, «Barcelona» is perhaps the easiest entry point to the catalogue. It needs no background, no knowledge of Spanish television or Madrid neighbourhoods. It only asks you to imagine a warm night on the Mediterranean and to move.
The image accompanying this release, a silhouette dancing with a ribbon of orange light in a room full of neon lines, comes from that same nocturnal, club-lit world. No face is visible, only movement.
Door three: glitter streets and high heels
The third song is a short, chant-like pride anthem. It opens with four words that work as a manifesto, «We shine, we rise / We never hide», and its verses picture two boys walking «On glitter streets» where one holds the other's hand «Where no one sees».
From there the song grows bolder. «We turn the night into gold / We never do what we're told», goes the pre-chorus, followed by one of the most quotable lines in the catalogue: «We wear our heels, stand tall». The heels are both a literal fashion statement and a symbol of standing upright in a world that would prefer you to stoop.
The chorus answers the stares of others with calm confidence: «Oh they whisper / Oh they stare» before the shrug of «We don't care». It is a song built for marches, for Pride weekends and for the walk home afterwards, when the glitter is still on your cheeks.
Three languages of the same planet
Taken together, these three songs show the range of Planeta Gayfolk outside its Spanish heartland: historical tenderness, holiday euphoria and pride. They also show the author's commitment to accessibility. A planet that only spoke one language would have a smaller door. By writing some songs in English and others in a mixture of both, Mike Sain't Louis invites listeners from London, New York or Sydney to step inside without needing a dictionary.
Free, with no sign-up
Every song in the catalogue, including these three, can be streamed and downloaded at no cost from the project's two websites. Lyrics are published in full and unedited on gayfolkplanet.com, and the English version of mikesaintlouis.com explains the project for international readers.
- English version of the author's site: https://mikesaintlouis.com/en
- «The Great Depression» lyric and video: https://gayfolkplanet.com/letras/the-great-depression
- «Barcelona» lyric and video: https://gayfolkplanet.com/letras/barcelona
- Free downloads: https://mikesaintlouis.com/descargas
- Free shop: https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda
About Mike Sain't Louis: lyricist, composer and music producer based in Madrid, creator of GAYFOLK and Planeta Gayfolk. He writes all his lyrics; the music and vocal performance are made with AI. He presents himself as the first AI songwriter («el primer cantautor IA»). Own label MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, distributed by Ditto Music. All music free at https://mikesaintlouis.com/descargas and https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda