.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his tunes spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. Accurate vallenatos, he claims, identified tales that would certainly take a trip from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, tells a duel between pair of famous accordion players. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira narrated of 2 close friends assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By chronicling a tiny part of life in Colombia, Vives preserves the conventional storytelling of vallenato via his present-day songs..