.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, figured out tales that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, tells a battle in between two popular accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of 2 close friends assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional storytelling of vallenato with his contemporary songs..