.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, distinguished tales that would certainly journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, narrates a duel between pair of popular accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira narrated of 2 good friends assembling to use their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a small piece of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard narration of vallenato by means of his contemporary tracks..