.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he states, distinguished tales that would certainly journey from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a battle in between 2 famous accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of two close friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a small piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical storytelling of vallenato via his modern songs..