.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he mentions, knew stories that would journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, tells a duel between 2 popular accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of pair of friends meeting up to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives maintains the standard storytelling of vallenato by means of his contemporary tracks..