.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he claims, figured out stories that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a battle between pair of widely known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of two close friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the traditional narration of vallenato with his contemporary songs..