.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he says, distinguished tales that would journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, narrates a duel between 2 well-known accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 close friends meeting up to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a little part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical narration of vallenato via his modern tracks..