.Although Vives' songs is vallenato-adjacent, he still feels his tracks mentally link to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, saw tales that would journey coming from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato through Emiliano Zuleta that Vives once covered, chronicles a battle in between 2 widely known accordion gamers. Likewise, Vives and Shakira told a story of two close friends meeting to use their bikes from Santa Marta (Vives' home town) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is actually coming from) in "La Bicicleta." Through recording a little piece of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives keeps the traditional storytelling of vallenato via his present-day tracks..