.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he says, determined stories that would certainly travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, chronicles a duel between pair of well-known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira narrated of 2 friends assembling to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little item of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the conventional storytelling of vallenato through his contemporary songs..