.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he states, figured out tales that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, chronicles a duel between two renowned accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of 2 friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato via his contemporary tracks..