.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tracks emotionally link to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he says, figured out stories that will journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, tells a duel in between two popular accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 good friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a small part of life in Colombia, Vives maintains the conventional storytelling of vallenato by means of his contemporary songs..