.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, knew stories that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, tells a battle between pair of famous accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of 2 friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the conventional narration of vallenato by means of his modern tunes..