.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, saw stories that would certainly take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a battle between two popular accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 good friends meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional narration of vallenato through his present-day tunes..