.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he claims, told tales that would certainly journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a battle in between pair of widely known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of two buddies meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a tiny part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional storytelling of vallenato with his modern tracks..