.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he says, determined tales that would travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a battle between 2 popular accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira narrated of two buddies assembling to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the standard narration of vallenato via his modern songs..