.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he mentions, knew stories that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, records a battle between 2 popular accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of pair of good friends meeting up to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through chronicling a tiny part of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical narration of vallenato with his modern tracks..