SAN FRANCISCO, United States, October 23, 2026. «Boys Like Us» belongs to «Ojalá se pudiera viajar a GAYFOLK», the second album of the trilogy. Its opening is almost a chant: «We shine, we rise / We never hide / We walk alone / On glitter streets / He holds my hand / Where no one sees». The lyric keeps that rhythm throughout, short phrases about holding hands where nobody sees, lighting a spark in the shadows and refusing to disappear. It is one of the catalogue's most straightforward songs of pride, with high heels planted firmly on the ground and no apology for taking up space.
San Francisco has long been one of the world's best-known centres of LGBTQ+ history and activism, and «Boys Like Us» speaks the same language of visibility. The song is in English, so it needs no translation for American listeners.
Two tones live side by side on Planeta Gayfolk that rarely share a discography: brazen comedy, with neighbourhood characters and farcical situations, and wounded songs written without one joke. The author moves from one to the other without asking permission because, according to his manifesto, identity as a whole is working material.
Every song in the catalogue comes out with its own artwork and music video, and most also have a dedicated post on the mikesaintlouis.com blog telling the story behind them. Someone who arrives through one track ends up finding the whole map: 273 songs, three albums and a planet with rules of its own.
The way he works is stated up front: lyrics, composition, production and video direction are by Mike Sain't Louis; the music and the vocal performance are made with AI. That transparency is part of the project rather than a footnote, and it is spelled out on mikesaintlouis.com.
The gayfolkplanet.com blog, the Planeta Gayfolk diary, devotes articles to many songs in the catalogue and their context: LGBTQ+ culture, humour, mental health and life on the planet. It has passed a thousand published pieces.
Its video is part of the author's collection of official clips, one for every released song. On the project's website they can be watched in order, connected to their album and to the characters who share a story. The song can be streamed on the usual platforms and watched on YouTube, with the rest of the catalogue linked from the website.
- The story behind the song (in Spanish): https://mikesaintlouis.com/blog/boys-like-us
- Song page: https://gayfolkplanet.com/letras/boys-like-us
- More: https://gayfolkplanet.com/gayfolk
Mike Sain't Louis (Madrid, Spain) is a lyricist, composer and music producer and the creator of the queer universe Planeta Gayfolk, with 273 songs released on his label MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS (distributed by Ditto Music). Music and vocal performance made with AI. More: https://gayfolkplanet.com He presents himself as «el primer cantautor IA». Stream and download all his music free on his website: https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda