.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he points out, knew stories that would certainly travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, tells a duel between 2 renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira narrated of 2 close friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a tiny item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato with his present-day songs..