.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he says, determined tales that would journey from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, records a battle between pair of well-known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of two good friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional narration of vallenato by means of his present-day tracks..