.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, distinguished tales that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, narrates a battle between pair of well-known accordion players. Similarly, Vives and Shakira narrated of pair of friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical storytelling of vallenato via his contemporary tunes..