.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, told stories that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, narrates a duel in between two widely known accordion players. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two good friends meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little part of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the traditional narration of vallenato by means of his modern tunes..