.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he mentions, knew stories that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, records a duel in between two well-known accordion players. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of 2 good friends assembling to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small piece of life in Colombia, Vives protects the typical narration of vallenato through his contemporary tunes..