.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he says, identified stories that would certainly take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, narrates a battle in between pair of popular accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of two pals meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the standard storytelling of vallenato via his modern songs..