.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks spiritually hook up to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he mentions, determined tales that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, tells a duel between pair of famous accordion players. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira narrated of 2 buddies meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "La Bicicleta." By recording a small item of life in Colombia, Vives protects the typical narration of vallenato through his present-day tunes..