.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he claims, saw tales that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a duel between 2 well-known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of two close friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional storytelling of vallenato with his present-day songs..