.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he points out, figured out stories that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, narrates a battle between pair of famous accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of friends meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a small item of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the typical narration of vallenato via his modern songs..