.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he states, distinguished stories that will travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, chronicles a battle between two popular accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of pair of close friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a small item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the standard narration of vallenato by means of his present-day tracks..