.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, determined stories that will travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a duel in between two well-known accordion players. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of 2 good friends meeting up to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the standard storytelling of vallenato through his modern tunes..