.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he says, figured out tales that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, narrates a duel in between 2 famous accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of pair of buddies meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a small item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the typical storytelling of vallenato by means of his contemporary songs..