.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tunes mentally connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, knew stories that would take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, records a duel in between two popular accordion players. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of pair of friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through chronicling a little item of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the conventional storytelling of vallenato by means of his present-day songs..