.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he claims, told stories that would take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, tells a battle in between 2 popular accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of 2 friends meeting to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional storytelling of vallenato with his contemporary tracks..