.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he claims, knew stories that would certainly journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, narrates a duel in between two famous accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 pals meeting up to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the conventional narration of vallenato by means of his present-day tunes..