.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he says, saw stories that would certainly travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, tells a duel in between two popular accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira told a story of 2 close friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical narration of vallenato by means of his present-day songs..