.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he mentions, told tales that would travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, tells a battle between two widely known accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of pair of good friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a little item of life in Colombia, Vives protects the conventional narration of vallenato through his modern songs..