.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he mentions, determined stories that would take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, tells a battle between 2 widely known accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of good friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional storytelling of vallenato by means of his modern tunes..