.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he states, determined tales that would certainly travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, chronicles a battle in between 2 popular accordion players. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 pals meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard narration of vallenato through his present-day songs..