.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he says, knew stories that will take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, records a battle in between two well-known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of friends assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a tiny item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the standard narration of vallenato with his contemporary tracks..