.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he points out, identified tales that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a battle in between pair of renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira narrated of pair of friends meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a tiny piece of life in Colombia, Vives protects the conventional narration of vallenato through his modern songs..