.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, distinguished stories that would journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, chronicles a battle in between two widely known accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of 2 close friends assembling to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a tiny item of life in Colombia, Vives protects the typical storytelling of vallenato by means of his present-day tracks..