.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he points out, distinguished tales that will travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, chronicles a battle between 2 renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of 2 pals meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through documenting a little item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato via his present-day tracks..