.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes emotionally attach to folkloric vallenato. Correct vallenatos, he mentions, identified stories that would certainly take a trip coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, records a battle in between 2 famous accordion players. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of 2 pals meeting up to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By documenting a little item of life in Colombia, Vives protects the standard narration of vallenato via his present-day songs..