.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he claims, told tales that will travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, chronicles a battle in between 2 renowned accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of buddies meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a tiny part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard narration of vallenato by means of his present-day songs..