.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he mentions, told stories that will travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a battle in between 2 renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira narrated of 2 close friends meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional narration of vallenato by means of his modern tunes..