.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he mentions, identified tales that would certainly journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, chronicles a battle in between pair of well-known accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of friends meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny part of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical storytelling of vallenato via his modern songs..