.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, knew tales that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, records a duel in between 2 famous accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of two good friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny part of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical storytelling of vallenato via his present-day tunes..