.Although Vives' music is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still believes his songs spiritually link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he states, identified stories that would certainly travel coming from pueblo to pueblo. Los Angeles Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives notoriously dealt with, narrates a battle in between 2 famous accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and Shakira told a story of 2 good friends meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' neighborhood) to Los angeles Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is from) in "Los Angeles Bicicleta." By recording a small piece of life in Colombia, Vives protects the conventional storytelling of vallenato by means of his modern songs..