.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he mentions, saw tales that would certainly journey from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, chronicles a battle in between two popular accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira narrated of pair of friends meeting up to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a small item of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard narration of vallenato by means of his modern songs..