.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, identified stories that would certainly journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, tells a battle between two famous accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of pair of close friends assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional narration of vallenato via his contemporary tracks..