.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he mentions, distinguished stories that will travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, narrates a duel in between pair of widely known accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira narrated of 2 pals assembling to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By recording a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical storytelling of vallenato with his present-day tunes..