.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he claims, told stories that would certainly take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a battle in between 2 famous accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of 2 buddies assembling to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical narration of vallenato through his contemporary tunes..