.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he claims, identified stories that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, narrates a battle in between 2 well-known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of pair of friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small item of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional narration of vallenato through his present-day songs..