.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, saw stories that will travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, narrates a battle in between 2 renowned accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of friends assembling to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By chronicling a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional narration of vallenato via his contemporary songs..