MADRID, Spain, October 24, 2026. Every amusement park has the same queue: people waiting nervously for a ride that will scare them on purpose. Nobody queues for the emotional version. "Montaña rusa" ("Rollercoaster"), a track by Madrid-based Mike Sain't Louis, describes a day nobody would choose, when feelings climb and drop without warning, and it names it with a phrase repeated like the clatter of a car on the rails: «Hoy es el día montaña rusa».
The word itself is stretched as the song goes on, «montaña ruuuuuuuuusaaaaaaaa», so that the listener can almost hear the long drop after the slow climb. It is a playful trick, and it sets up a song that mixes lightness and pain in equal measure.
**Trying to hold it together**
The verses describe an effort that many people will recognise. «Y aunque intente contenerme a todas horas»: even though I try to hold myself together all the time. The day is not spent collapsing dramatically; it is spent trying, and failing, to look normal. Tears arrive anyway: «No puedo evitar llorar».
What follows is the line that explains the tears, and it carries a quiet accusation. «Yo a diferencia de usted / Si le quería / Como quién dice / Hasta hace tres días». Unlike you, I did love you, as they say, until three days ago. The formal «usted», used in Spanish for strangers and superiors, is a cold choice here. Addressing a former partner that way puts instant distance between them. And «hasta hace tres días» locates the song precisely: this is the immediate aftermath, before any perspective has arrived.
**The muse is dying**
The most original idea in "Montaña rusa" is not about the relationship at all. It is about creativity. «Se está muriendo la / muuuuuusaaaaaa», the muse is dying. And in the second chorus things get worse: «aparte de estar muriendo la musa / se ha quedado también / muuuuuuuuuudaaaaaa». Apart from dying, the muse has also gone mute.
Writers, painters and composers often talk about heartbreak as fuel for their work. "Montaña rusa" tells the other side of the story. Sometimes pain does not produce art; it silences it. The rhyme between «musa» and «muda», muse and mute, is simple and effective, and it gives the song an unexpected layer of honesty. The person who writes songs for a living admits that, on this particular day, nothing is coming.
Of course, the song itself is proof that the silence did not last. That small paradox is part of its charm. The track about losing the muse is also the moment the muse comes back.
**Short, repetitive and deliberate**
Like several tracks in the Planeta Gayfolk catalogue, "Montaña rusa" is brief and built on repetition. The same few lines return, slightly varied, as if the narrator were going round the same circuit again and again. That is exactly how the first days after a loss feel: the same thoughts, the same drops, the same climbs. The structure of the song becomes the shape of the experience.
**The video: a ride that catches fire**
The official video takes the metaphor literally and then pushes it further. Two riders laugh as their car climbs an old wooden track through bare trees; the car leaves the rails and flies; and in the final scenes the ride is engulfed in flames. It is funny and alarming at once, which is exactly the tone of the song.
The image accompanying this release is a still from the video: two passengers seen from behind in the front car, climbing the steel track towards the top of the first hill. Their faces are not visible. What matters is the moment captured, that last second of calm before the drop.
**Part of a bigger map**
Planeta Gayfolk is the imaginary queer world built by Mike Sain't Louis across hundreds of songs and videos. Many of its tracks deal with the end of relationships, from long, reflective pieces to furious dance numbers. "Montaña rusa" sits in the middle: not yet angry, not yet healed, simply dizzy. For listeners who are going through a similar week, it offers recognition, and a reminder that rides end and people get off.
**Why a fairground image works so well**
The rollercoaster is one of the most familiar metaphors in everyday speech. People talk about an emotional rollercoaster after an exam, a job interview or a family crisis. Mike Sain't Louis takes that worn-out phrase and gives it back its physical force. On a real ride there is a long, mechanical climb, a moment of suspension at the top, and then a fall that the body cannot control. Grief follows the same pattern. There are hours when everything seems manageable, and then a memory, a song or a message sends the whole car down the slope again.
The comparison also contains a promise. Every rollercoaster ends at the same platform where it began, and the passengers walk away on their own feet, shaky but intact. The song never says this outright, but the image says it for it.
**Free listening and downloads**
"Montaña rusa" can be streamed and downloaded for free, with no account needed, from mikesaintlouis.com and from the free shop at gayfolkplanet.com. The complete lyric is published on gayfolkplanet.com exactly as written, alongside the official video.
- Song page and lyric: https://gayfolkplanet.com/letras/montana-rusa
- About the track (in Spanish): https://mikesaintlouis.com/blog/montana-rusa
- 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. Known as the first AI songwriter («el primer cantautor IA»), he writes every lyric himself, while 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 · Listen and download free: https://mikesaintlouis.com/descargas and https://gayfolkplanet.com/tienda