.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he says, told tales that will travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, tells a battle between two well-known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of buddies meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a little item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional narration of vallenato with his modern songs..