.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he says, knew stories that would certainly journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, chronicles a battle between 2 popular accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of close friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a tiny part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional narration of vallenato through his contemporary songs..