.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, told stories that will journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, chronicles a battle between pair of popular accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira narrated of two good friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a little part of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard storytelling of vallenato through his present-day songs..