.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he claims, saw stories that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, chronicles a battle between 2 widely known accordion players. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of 2 friends meeting up to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a little piece of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional narration of vallenato via his present-day songs..