.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he mentions, knew tales that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, records a duel in between two well-known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of 2 buddies meeting up to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a tiny part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional narration of vallenato by means of his contemporary tunes..