.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, figured out stories that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a duel in between two renowned accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 close friends meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a little item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato via his present-day songs..