.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he says, determined tales that would travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a duel in between two widely known accordion players. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of two close friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a tiny part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the standard narration of vallenato with his present-day songs..