.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, told tales that will take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, tells a battle between pair of renowned accordion players. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of 2 buddies meeting to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional storytelling of vallenato with his contemporary tunes..