.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he states, identified stories that will travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, chronicles a battle in between pair of popular accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two close friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny item of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the typical narration of vallenato with his present-day songs..