.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he points out, saw stories that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, tells a duel between pair of renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of two good friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a small piece of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the typical narration of vallenato by means of his modern tunes..