.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he says, figured out stories that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, chronicles a battle in between two renowned accordion players. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of two buddies assembling to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little item of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical narration of vallenato via his present-day songs..