.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he claims, saw tales that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, records a battle between 2 widely known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a small piece of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the conventional narration of vallenato by means of his modern tracks..