.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he states, distinguished stories that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a duel between two well-known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of 2 close friends assembling to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a small item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the standard storytelling of vallenato with his modern tracks..