.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he mentions, knew stories that would certainly travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, tells a duel between two widely known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of 2 good friends assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a tiny part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional narration of vallenato by means of his present-day tunes..