.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, saw stories that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a battle between two well-known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of pair of close friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a small part of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the standard storytelling of vallenato via his contemporary tracks..