.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, told stories that would take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a battle between 2 famous accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of two buddies meeting to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a small item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato through his contemporary songs..