.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he says, determined tales that would certainly take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, records a duel in between pair of famous accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of two friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional narration of vallenato through his contemporary tunes..