.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he states, figured out tales that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, narrates a duel in between pair of renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 close friends meeting to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a tiny part of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical storytelling of vallenato by means of his present-day tracks..