.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, identified stories that would certainly travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, records a duel between 2 widely known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 buddies assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard storytelling of vallenato by means of his present-day tunes..