.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he states, identified tales that would certainly journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, tells a battle between 2 well-known accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of pair of good friends assembling to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a small part of life in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional narration of vallenato via his modern tracks..