.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he mentions, figured out tales that will take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, tells a battle between pair of famous accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of two friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a little piece of life in Colombia, Vives protects the typical narration of vallenato through his contemporary songs..