.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he states, identified stories that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, records a battle between pair of well-known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of two friends assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny item of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the typical narration of vallenato by means of his modern tunes..