.Although Vives' popular music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks spiritually connect to folkloric vallenato. True vallenatos, he points out, distinguished stories that would travel from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once dealt with, chronicles a battle between pair of famous accordion players. Similarly, Vives as well as Shakira told a story of pair of buddies assembling to ride their bikes coming from Santa clam Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to La Arenosa (or Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives preserves the traditional storytelling of vallenato through his modern tracks..