.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, told stories that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, narrates a duel between 2 famous accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 close friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a small item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the traditional narration of vallenato with his contemporary tracks..