.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he mentions, saw tales that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, records a duel in between pair of popular accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira narrated of 2 close friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard narration of vallenato through his contemporary tracks..