.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, knew stories that will travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, tells a duel in between 2 popular accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of two buddies meeting to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By recording a tiny piece of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional narration of vallenato via his contemporary songs..