.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he points out, told tales that would certainly travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, records a duel between pair of widely known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of close friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By chronicling a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato via his contemporary tunes..