.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, saw stories that would travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, chronicles a duel between two widely known accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira narrated of 2 close friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the conventional narration of vallenato through his present-day tracks..