.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he claims, determined stories that would take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, records a duel in between two famous accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a tiny part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical narration of vallenato through his present-day tracks..