.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, saw stories that would take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a battle in between pair of renowned accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira narrated of pair of buddies meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a little part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional storytelling of vallenato by means of his present-day tunes..