.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tracks spiritually attach to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he says, knew stories that would journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, narrates a duel in between 2 well-known accordion players. In a similar way, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of pair of pals meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a tiny piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the standard narration of vallenato with his contemporary tracks..