.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he mentions, distinguished tales that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, tells a battle in between pair of well-known accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of two good friends assembling to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little item of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional narration of vallenato through his present-day songs..