.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he claims, determined stories that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, narrates a battle in between two famous accordion players. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of pair of friends meeting to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a small part of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the conventional storytelling of vallenato by means of his present-day songs..