.Although Vives' music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he states, figured out stories that would certainly travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, records a battle in between 2 renowned accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of pair of good friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a small item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the conventional storytelling of vallenato by means of his modern songs..