.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, saw stories that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a battle in between pair of well-known accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 friends meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a small item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the typical storytelling of vallenato via his contemporary tracks..