.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he mentions, knew tales that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a battle in between two well-known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of close friends assembling to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a little item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical narration of vallenato by means of his contemporary tracks..