.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, figured out stories that would travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, records a duel in between pair of renowned accordion players. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of pair of good friends meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a little item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the standard narration of vallenato by means of his modern songs..