.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he points out, distinguished tales that would travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, records a battle between pair of renowned accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two buddies assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a small item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the standard narration of vallenato with his present-day tunes..