.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he states, distinguished stories that would take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, narrates a duel between two famous accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of two pals assembling to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the standard narration of vallenato by means of his modern songs..