.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he mentions, determined tales that would journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, narrates a battle between pair of popular accordion players. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of two good friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a little part of life in Colombia, Vives protects the conventional storytelling of vallenato with his contemporary songs..