.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, determined tales that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, narrates a battle in between 2 popular accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of two close friends assembling to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small part of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard storytelling of vallenato through his modern songs..