.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he mentions, knew stories that would journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, tells a battle in between pair of well-known accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 buddies meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a little item of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard narration of vallenato through his modern tunes..