.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he mentions, distinguished stories that would certainly journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, chronicles a duel between 2 renowned accordion players. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two friends meeting to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the conventional storytelling of vallenato via his present-day tunes..