.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, identified tales that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, chronicles a duel between 2 famous accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of two good friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a small part of life in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional narration of vallenato via his modern songs..