.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he says, distinguished stories that would journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, chronicles a battle in between 2 popular accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira narrated of two friends meeting to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a little part of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical storytelling of vallenato through his modern tracks..