.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he says, identified tales that would travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, narrates a duel in between two widely known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of 2 friends meeting to use their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a small item of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional narration of vallenato through his contemporary tracks..