.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, distinguished stories that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, narrates a battle in between 2 famous accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of 2 good friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a little piece of life in Colombia, Vives protects the conventional narration of vallenato by means of his modern tunes..