.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he mentions, saw stories that would journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, tells a duel between 2 popular accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira told a story of 2 friends meeting to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small part of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard storytelling of vallenato via his modern songs..