.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he says, distinguished stories that would travel from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, chronicles a duel between two famous accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two friends meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny part of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the conventional storytelling of vallenato via his modern tunes..