.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he says, figured out tales that would journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, tells a duel between two widely known accordion players. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two pals meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little part of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard narration of vallenato via his contemporary songs..