.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he states, determined tales that will take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, records a battle between 2 popular accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of 2 pals meeting up to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a tiny part of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical storytelling of vallenato with his contemporary songs..