.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, determined stories that will journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, records a battle in between pair of well-known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira narrated of 2 friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a small item of life in Colombia, Vives protects the typical narration of vallenato with his modern songs..