.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he says, knew tales that would certainly travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, narrates a battle between 2 widely known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of two good friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a little item of life in Colombia, Vives protects the typical storytelling of vallenato by means of his present-day tracks..