.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, distinguished stories that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, tells a battle between pair of well-known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira told a story of 2 close friends assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a small item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical storytelling of vallenato by means of his modern tracks..