.Although Vives' popular music is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his songs spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, knew stories 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, records a duel between 2 popular accordion gamers. In a similar way, Vives and Shakira told a story of two friends meeting to ride their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through documenting a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional narration of vallenato by means of his present-day tracks..