.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, identified tales that would take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, tells a battle between 2 famous accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira narrated of two close friends meeting to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional narration of vallenato through his contemporary songs..