.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, told stories that would certainly take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a battle between two widely known accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of pair of pals meeting to ride 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." By chronicling a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato with his present-day tracks..