.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he points out, identified tales that would certainly take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, chronicles a duel between two famous accordion players. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of 2 good friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a little item of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional narration of vallenato through his modern tunes..