.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he mentions, told stories that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, tells a battle between two well-known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of two friends meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a tiny piece of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional narration of vallenato via his contemporary tracks..