.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he mentions, distinguished stories that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, chronicles a duel in between two famous accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira told a story of 2 friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional storytelling of vallenato with his modern tracks..