.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he mentions, determined tales that would journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, tells a duel between pair of widely known accordion players. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of close friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato by means of his contemporary tracks..