 During America's honeymoon with the romanticized version of its newly incorporated state came the 1961 musical smash-hit "Blue Hawaii", featuring pop crooner Elvis Presley playing an Army veteran returning to Hawaii to surf, sing, and marry his girlfriend.It contained many plot elements similar to 1937s previous "Waikiki Wedding", and helped to bring a "Polynesian pop" aspect of tiki to a new generation.This addition came as tiki culture music had begun to split into separate subgenres with the additions of lounge and exotica in the 1950s, which at that point had amended the typical "Bing Crosby" style of American-Hawaiian music.