.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, determined stories that will journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, chronicles a battle in between pair of renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of pair of friends assembling to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a little part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the conventional storytelling of vallenato via his modern tunes..