For a while I liked Beirut's "Elephant Gun".
Then the wrong people in high places noticed that song, and put it in the soundtrack of a pin-headed TV adaptation of one of Machado de Assis most famous books, Dom Casmurro.
1) Machado de Assis is renowned by his subtlety and elegance, and Dom Casmurro shows him at perhaps his most restrained - so naturally the good TV folk adapted the story using circus elements, and a German expressionist style! The protagonist was shown crying through one of those novelty glasses that squirt water! Yay!
2) They really got their money's worth out of the deal. To say that they overused the song would be an understatement. It was on the opening and ending credits, it was in the soundtrack itself, it was everywhere all the time. Always that little intro with the mandolin, always the main riff with the plaintive horns. Over and over and over and over again.
3) A friend of mine who still follows music went to buy tickets to the Beirut gig here in Rio. It was after the series had ended, when every living soul in this vast land (8.500.000 km2, 190.000.000 people) had been bludgeoned to death with the song. She said the queue to buy tickets was 60% old ladies who simply adored the TV series. She was cornered into chatting, and got to learn that the old ladies thought that "Elephant Gun" was the most precious thing ever penned by a young musician in the last 20 years, so much better than all that noisy stuff...
In short, I wish I had an elephant gun available everytime I hear the song or someone mentioning the song. But then I would be poor because I bet elephant bullets don't come cheap.