.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he mentions, determined stories that would certainly journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, chronicles a battle in between pair of popular accordion players. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of two good friends meeting up to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a little part of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the conventional narration of vallenato via his modern tunes..