.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes mentally attach to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he claims, figured out stories that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, records a battle between 2 widely known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of pair of pals assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard narration of vallenato with his present-day songs..