.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, figured out tales that will journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, records a battle between pair of popular accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira told a story of 2 buddies assembling to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a tiny part of life in Colombia, Vives protects the standard storytelling of vallenato by means of his modern tunes..