.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he points out, saw stories that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, tells a duel between 2 well-known accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of two good friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a tiny piece of life in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional narration of vallenato through his contemporary tunes..