.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, determined tales that would journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, tells a battle between pair of widely known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two buddies assembling to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny part of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the traditional narration of vallenato through his modern tracks..