MADRID, Spain, October 25, 2026. Every city has two maps. One shows the avenues, the museums and the squares where families stroll on Sunday. The other is drawn by people who cannot love in the open: the side streets, the cheap rooms, the hours chosen because nobody will be around. In «El anillo de casado», Mike Sain't Louis, the Madrid-based lyricist, composer and music producer behind Planeta Gayfolk, traces that second map with humour and a surprising tenderness.
Five beers and a beginning
The song starts in the most ordinary place imaginable: a bar chain famous for small sandwiches, «los cien montaditos». Two men share «cinco jarras», five pints, «entre risas y miradas», between laughter and glances, «bien escondiditos», well hidden. The diminutives are typical of spoken Spanish and they give the opening a cosy, slightly tipsy warmth. The narrator admits he is «contentillo», a little merry, and says plainly what he wants: for the other man to come to bed and take off his ring.
That ring is the protagonist of the chorus. «Lleva el anillo de casado», he wears the wedding ring, «por siempre enamorado», forever in love, the lyric adds with a raised eyebrow. He has walked down the church aisle. Everyone has seen the ceremony. And yet here he is.
A confession in the bridge
What lifts the song beyond a cheeky anecdote is the bridge, where the narrator stops joking. «¿Y qué voy a hacer? No lo sé», what am I going to do? I don't know. «Con él estoy tan bien», I feel so good with him. «Me estoy empezando a enamorar de él», I am starting to fall for him. The adventure has become a feeling, and the feeling has nowhere to go.
He even names the trap with great precision: what holds him every day a little more is the other man's «supuesta heterosexualidad», his supposed heterosexuality. The word supuesta, supposed, carries the whole ironic weight of the song. Everybody plays a role; only the narrator seems to know the script is fiction.
The wedding and the telefonillo
The final verse places two images side by side. On one side, the official story: a church wedding, a bride in pure white, four hundred guests. On the other, the unofficial one: two men walking through Madrid «de discretos», discreetly, searching for hostels that do not have the sign «completos», no vacancy, hanging on the intercom. It is one of the most cinematic lines Mike has written, and it captures the absurd logistics of a love that has to look for a room every time.
Listeners who grew up queer in conservative environments, or who have been the secret of someone else's double life, will recognise the mixture of excitement and humiliation in that image. The song never moralises. It does not condemn the narrator, and it does not excuse the married man. It shows the situation and lets the listener feel the cost.
Lightness as a way of telling the truth
Musically and lyrically, «El anillo de casado» stays light. The chorus is catchy, the rhymes are playful, and the ending line, «si pasa por mi cama y lo disfruto para mí es pasado», if he passes through my bed and I enjoy it, for me it is the past, sounds at first as pure bravado. But after the bridge it reads differently: it is the narrator trying to convince himself that he can walk away.
That double reading is typical of Mike Sain't Louis. His comic songs tend to carry a second track of feeling, and the comedy is often what makes the feeling bearable.
A word on wellbeing
Living a hidden relationship can be lonely and exhausting, whether you are the one with the secret or the one kept in the shadows. If it starts to weigh on your mental health, reach out. In Spain, the 024 line is free and available at any hour; elsewhere, local helplines and LGBTQ+ support services can listen without judgement. Mike speaks publicly about his own treatment because asking for help should never be a source of shame.
Making the track
Mike Sain't Louis writes all his lyrics and directs every production. The music and vocal performance are made with AI, his tool for producing and arranging. He calls himself the first AI songwriter, «el primer cantautor IA».
Watch and download
The official video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqf0R9utA4. The track, together with the rest of the catalogue, can be downloaded without paying and without signing up from the official downloads page and from the free shop at Planeta Gayfolk.
- About the song: https://mikesaintlouis.com/blog/el-anillo-de-casado
- Lyric: https://gayfolkplanet.com/letras/el-anillo-de-casado
- Free shop: https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda
- Free downloads: https://mikesaintlouis.com/descargas
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. Label: MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS. Distribution: Ditto Music. Website: https://mikesaintlouis.com · Press: https://gayfolkplanet.com/prensa He presents himself as the first AI songwriter («el primer cantautor IA»). Listen to and download all his music for free at https://mikesaintlouis.com/descargas and https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda