.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, figured out tales that would certainly journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, narrates a battle between pair of famous accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of two pals meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a small part of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional narration of vallenato via his present-day tunes..