.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he states, identified tales that would travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, narrates a duel in between two renowned accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of two close friends meeting to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny piece of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the traditional storytelling of vallenato by means of his present-day tunes..