.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he claims, knew stories that would travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, chronicles a duel in between two widely known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 good friends meeting to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the conventional narration of vallenato by means of his modern tracks..