.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he points out, identified stories that would journey from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, records a duel in between two renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira told a story of 2 good friends assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the conventional narration of vallenato through his contemporary tracks..