.Although Vives' songs is actually vallenato-adjacent, he still thinks his songs mentally hook up to folkloric vallenato. Real vallenatos, he points out, knew tales that will journey from pueblo to pueblo. La Gota Fru00eda, a 1938 vallenato by Emiliano Zuleta that Vives famously covered, records a battle in between pair of widely known accordion gamers. Similarly, Vives and also Shakira told a story of pair of close friends meeting to ride their bikes coming from Santa Marta (Vives' hometown) to La Arenosa (or even Barranquilla, where Shakira is coming from) in "La Bicicleta." By documenting a tiny item of lifestyle in Colombia, Vives protects the standard narration of vallenato with his modern tracks..