.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he says, saw tales that would certainly travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, tells a duel in between pair of well-known accordion players. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 close friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a small piece of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional narration of vallenato with his contemporary songs..