.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, knew stories that will take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, tells a duel between pair of widely known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira told a story of 2 pals assembling to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional narration of vallenato with his contemporary songs..