.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he claims, distinguished tales that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, chronicles a duel in between 2 renowned accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of two pals assembling to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the conventional storytelling of vallenato with his modern tracks..