.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, told stories that would travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, tells a duel between pair of well-known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of pals meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the standard narration of vallenato by means of his contemporary songs..