.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he claims, saw stories that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, narrates a battle in between two famous accordion players. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of two buddies meeting up to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the conventional storytelling of vallenato with his contemporary tracks..