.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his tunes emotionally connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he says, determined tales that would certainly travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, tells a battle in between pair of widely known accordion players. Likewise, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of friends meeting up to use their bikes from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." Through recording a tiny piece of life in Colombia, Vives protects the traditional storytelling of vallenato through his modern tunes..