.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he claims, knew stories that would journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, records a duel in between pair of famous accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of two close friends assembling to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the typical narration of vallenato with his present-day tunes..