.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he says, saw tales that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, narrates a duel in between 2 well-known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira narrated of 2 friends meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By recording a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the typical narration of vallenato via his modern songs..