.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he points out, figured out stories that would certainly journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, narrates a battle between 2 famous accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 friends meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical storytelling of vallenato by means of his modern tunes..