.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, identified stories that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, records a battle between pair of popular accordion players. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of two good friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard storytelling of vallenato with his contemporary tunes..