.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, figured out stories that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, chronicles a duel in between two renowned accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of 2 good friends meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a little piece of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard storytelling of vallenato by means of his contemporary tunes..