.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he mentions, distinguished stories that will travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, records a duel between pair of famous accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of two close friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a little piece of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional narration of vallenato by means of his contemporary tracks..