.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he points out, figured out tales that will take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, tells a battle between pair of popular accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira narrated of 2 pals meeting up to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical narration of vallenato with his contemporary tunes..