.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he mentions, knew tales that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, records a battle between 2 widely known accordion players. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 buddies meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the standard storytelling of vallenato through his present-day tracks..