.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he claims, determined tales that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, tells a battle between pair of well-known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira narrated of two friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the traditional narration of vallenato with his modern songs..