.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, determined stories that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, records a battle between pair of widely known accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of two friends meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional storytelling of vallenato via his present-day tunes..