.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he mentions, knew stories that will journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, chronicles a battle in between 2 widely known accordion players. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of pair of buddies meeting to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the standard storytelling of vallenato via his present-day tracks..