.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he states, told tales that would certainly take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, narrates a battle in between 2 popular accordion players. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of two close friends assembling to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the standard storytelling of vallenato through his modern tunes..