.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he states, told stories that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, records a battle in between two widely known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira narrated of two pals meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny piece of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional narration of vallenato via his contemporary tunes..