.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he claims, told tales that would certainly travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, chronicles a duel in between two famous accordion players. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of good friends meeting up to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional narration of vallenato by means of his contemporary tracks..