.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes mentally link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, told tales that will travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, tells a duel between pair of popular accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of two good friends assembling to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a little item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the traditional narration of vallenato via his modern tunes..