.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, told tales that would take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, chronicles a battle between 2 famous accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of 2 pals meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By recording a small piece of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional storytelling of vallenato with his modern songs..