.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, saw tales that would certainly travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, records a battle between pair of renowned accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two friends meeting up to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the conventional storytelling of vallenato with his modern tunes..