.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he says, figured out stories that will take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, records a duel in between pair of popular accordion players. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of 2 pals meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a little part of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard storytelling of vallenato through his modern tunes..