.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, identified stories that will journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, narrates a duel between pair of popular accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of two friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small piece of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the typical narration of vallenato with his contemporary songs..