.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he mentions, knew stories that would certainly travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, records a battle in between pair of renowned accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of buddies meeting up 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 tiny part of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical storytelling of vallenato with his contemporary tunes..