.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, identified stories that would certainly journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, records a battle between pair of well-known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of close friends meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little item of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional narration of vallenato via his present-day songs..