.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he claims, told tales that would certainly journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, narrates a battle in between two widely known accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of 2 friends meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional storytelling of vallenato by means of his present-day tracks..