.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, figured out stories that would certainly travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, tells a battle between pair of widely known accordion players. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of 2 good friends assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the typical storytelling of vallenato through his modern tunes..