.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, identified stories that would take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, chronicles a duel in between 2 widely known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of pals assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical storytelling of vallenato through his contemporary tunes..