.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, knew stories that would certainly travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, chronicles a duel in between pair of well-known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira narrated of two friends assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a small item of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional storytelling of vallenato via his contemporary tracks..