.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he states, distinguished stories that would certainly journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a duel in between two renowned accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira narrated of 2 pals meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a small part of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the conventional narration of vallenato through his contemporary tracks..