.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, knew tales that will journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, chronicles a battle in between pair of famous accordion players. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 buddies meeting up to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a tiny part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical storytelling of vallenato through his present-day tunes..