.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, identified stories that would travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, records a battle in between 2 popular accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of pals meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a little item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the conventional storytelling of vallenato by means of his modern tracks..