.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he says, identified tales that would travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, tells a duel in between 2 popular accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of pair of close friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the typical narration of vallenato via his modern tracks..