.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he claims, identified tales that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, chronicles a duel in between two renowned accordion players. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of pair of buddies assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard narration of vallenato via his modern tracks..