.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he says, knew stories that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously covered, narrates a duel between 2 well-known accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and also Shakira told a story of two buddies assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a small part of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the typical narration of vallenato by means of his present-day songs..