.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, saw tales that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, records a duel in between two well-known accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of 2 buddies assembling to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a little item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard narration of vallenato with his present-day songs..