.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he states, figured out tales that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, chronicles a battle between pair of well-known accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of pals meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard storytelling of vallenato through his modern songs..