.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he says, saw stories that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, records a duel in between 2 renowned accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira narrated of two buddies meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By chronicling a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard storytelling of vallenato through his modern tunes..