.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, distinguished stories that would journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, chronicles a battle in between 2 renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two good friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little part of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard narration of vallenato by means of his contemporary songs..