.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, saw stories that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, chronicles a duel between pair of famous accordion players. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of two good friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a small piece of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard narration of vallenato by means of his modern songs..