.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, identified stories that would certainly travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, tells a duel in between pair of renowned accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 good friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a small part of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard narration of vallenato by means of his present-day tracks..