.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he claims, saw stories that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, records a duel in between two renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of pair of buddies assembling to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By recording a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the typical narration of vallenato through his modern tracks..