.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, determined tales that would travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, records a battle between 2 renowned accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two friends meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard narration of vallenato via his present-day tracks..