.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs mentally link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he says, determined stories that would travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a battle in between pair of popular accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of two close friends assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional storytelling of vallenato via his present-day tracks..