.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he mentions, identified stories that would travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously dealt with, chronicles a duel in between 2 renowned accordion players. Likewise, Vives as well as Shakira narrated of 2 buddies meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny item of life in Colombia, Vives keeps the typical narration of vallenato through his modern songs..