.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he mentions, saw stories that would certainly journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, records a duel between two renowned accordion players. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of two pals meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little part of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional narration of vallenato by means of his modern tunes..