.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he mentions, saw tales that would travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, tells a duel in between two famous accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of close friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By recording a small part of life in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional narration of vallenato through his present-day tracks..