.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he says, identified stories that would take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, records a duel in between two famous accordion players. Likewise, Vives and Shakira narrated of pair of pals meeting to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard storytelling of vallenato with his modern tunes..