.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he mentions, determined tales that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, records a battle in between pair of popular accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of two buddies assembling to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional narration of vallenato by means of his present-day songs..