.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, distinguished stories that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, chronicles a battle between 2 famous accordion players. Similarly, Vives and Shakira narrated of pair of friends meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny item of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard narration of vallenato with his present-day tunes..