MADRID, Spain, October 24, 2026. Spanish has a wonderful expression for things that are completely worthless: «no vale un pimiento», it is not worth a pepper. Mike Sain't Louis, the Madrid-based lyricist, composer and music producer behind the queer universe Planeta Gayfolk, builds an entire song around it. «Ni un pimiento», from the album «Ojalá Se Pudiera Viajar a Gayfolk», is a breakup song that refuses to cry, preferring to laugh loudly instead. As always in his catalogue, the lyric, composition and production are his, and the music and the vocal performance are made with AI.
A shrug in the first line
The song opens with a question that sounds weary rather than tragic: «¿Por qué parece que nada importa ya? / El sufrimiento no vale ni una pizca de sal». Suffering is measured in kitchen terms, as a pinch of salt, and found to be worth less. It is the first hint that this is going to be a domestic, down-to-earth take on heartbreak, with the pantry as its main source of metaphors.
Then come the promises that did not last: a couple who swore total devotion and then «deja todo al azar», leaving everything to chance. Nothing more is said about who they were. The song is not interested in names or blame; it is interested in what happens next.
A cupid with bad aim
The second stanza introduces two familiar figures. First, a clumsy cupid: «Si cupido dispara pero falla el destino / Se cruzan los dedos se reza al vecino». Praying to the neighbour instead of to the saints is a very Planeta Gayfolk joke, the kind of neighbourhood humour that runs through dozens of the songs. Then the tone turns protective: «Pero si algo malo viene no te asustes mi hermano / Eres un ángel caído un buen samaritano».
Here the lyric speaks directly to a friend, or to the listener, and gives him a role. He is not a victim. He is a fallen angel and a good Samaritan, someone whose kindness was real even if it was not returned.
The chorus as advice from a friend
The central refrain is the kind of thing a best friend says over a second drink: «No vale un pimiento llorar por el pasado / Mejor ríe alto que el mundo está marcado». And it goes on: «Lo que te han dejado es lección tatuado / Eres un guerrero listo para lo inesperado». The pain is not erased; it becomes a tattoo, a mark that stays but has been turned into something chosen and worn with some pride. The listener leaves the chorus as a warrior rather than a casualty.
The good Samaritan and the second-hand heart
The longest and funniest passage turns the metaphor of rescue into slapstick. The narrator explains that what he took home was already past its sell-by date: «Si es que encima estaba caducado y era de segunda mano, estaba toqueteado». And, being the kind soul he is, «Lo salvé cuando lo habían descartado». It is a self-mocking confession many people will recognise: the urge to save someone that nobody else wanted, and the realisation, much later, that it was not a bargain.
A portable freezer is better company
The punchline is pure absurdist comedy. The song advises: «Serás más feliz con un congelador portátil paseando de la mano y un sellador de bolsas al vacío». Imagining someone walking hand in hand with a portable freezer, vacuum sealer in tow, is ridiculous, and that is the point. After an emotional scam, a household appliance looks like a more reliable partner. The line also echoes a recurring theme in the catalogue, the «estafa emocional», the emotional swindle, named explicitly a few lines earlier: «Que la estafa emocional ya te la han dado».
Humour as a way out
Planeta Gayfolk is full of songs about getting free of people who lied, manipulated or took more than they gave. Some of them are dark and slow. «Ni un pimiento» shows the other strategy: laughing. Laughter here is not denial; it is a way of shrinking the past back to its real size. Something that once seemed enormous becomes, in the end, not worth a pepper.
That mix of wound and wisecrack is one of the signatures of Mike Sain't Louis's writing. A line that sounds like a joke often hides a real lesson, and a real lesson is rarely delivered without a joke attached.
The image: a wave on an empty shore
The picture accompanying this release is an illustrative, people-free scene: a huge turquoise wave about to break over a quiet bay, with palm trees and small boats in the foreground. It suits a song about something big that arrives, crashes and then leaves the beach exactly as it was. The sea always calms down. So, the song suggests, does the heart.
Listen and download for free
The full lyric of «Ni un pimiento» is published unedited on its song page at gayfolkplanet.com, together with the official video. Like the rest of the discography, the track is free to stream and free to download, with no account needed.
- Song page with lyric and video: https://gayfolkplanet.com/letras/ni-un-pimiento
- Free downloads: https://mikesaintlouis.com/descargas
- Free shop: https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda
- The author's site in English: https://mikesaintlouis.com/en
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 calls himself the first AI songwriter («el primer cantautor IA»). Label: MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS, distributed by Ditto Music. Free listening and downloads at https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda and https://mikesaintlouis.com/descargas