.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he states, told stories that would take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, records a duel in between two popular accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of pair of close friends assembling to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a little part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical storytelling of vallenato via his present-day songs..