.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, distinguished tales that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, chronicles a duel between 2 famous accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of pair of close friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a small item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the conventional storytelling of vallenato by means of his contemporary tracks..