.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he says, figured out stories that will take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, narrates a duel in between two widely known accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of pair of friends assembling to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a small item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato via his present-day tunes..