.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he claims, identified stories that will journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, chronicles a battle in between pair of famous accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of two buddies assembling to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By chronicling a small piece of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the conventional storytelling of vallenato through his present-day tunes..