.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he mentions, identified stories that will journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, records a duel in between two well-known accordion players. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of pair of good friends assembling to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a small item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the typical narration of vallenato with his modern tunes..