.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he says, distinguished stories that will journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, records a duel between two famous accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira narrated of 2 close friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional narration of vallenato via his contemporary songs..