.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he says, knew tales that will take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, tells a battle between two renowned accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of pair of pals meeting 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 piece of life in Colombia, Vives protects the standard storytelling of vallenato through his modern tracks..