.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, identified stories that would certainly journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, tells a battle between pair of famous accordion players. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of two close friends meeting up to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny item of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical storytelling of vallenato via his present-day tracks..