.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, determined stories that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, chronicles a battle between pair of famous accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two buddies meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a small part of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato with his present-day tracks..