.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, knew tales that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a duel between 2 renowned accordion players. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of 2 friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small item of life in Colombia, Vives protects the conventional storytelling of vallenato with his present-day tunes..