.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he states, saw stories that would certainly travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, narrates a battle in between pair of renowned accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 good friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a little part of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the standard narration of vallenato with his contemporary tunes..