.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he states, identified stories that would certainly travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a duel between two renowned accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of pals meeting to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato with his present-day tunes..