.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he mentions, knew stories that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, chronicles a duel in between pair of famous accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of pals meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional narration of vallenato through his contemporary tunes..