.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes emotionally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he claims, told stories that would journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, chronicles a duel between two famous accordion players. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two good friends meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little item of life in Colombia, Vives protects the typical narration of vallenato via his modern tunes..