.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he says, identified tales that would certainly take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, chronicles a battle in between 2 renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira narrated of pair of buddies assembling to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny part of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard storytelling of vallenato by means of his modern songs..