.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he claims, distinguished tales that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, chronicles a battle between two well-known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 good friends meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the conventional storytelling of vallenato through his present-day songs..