Please make it stop

or but not both.

Note to the Head Secretariat of the Committee for the People’s Beach Volleyball Music Service: after each kill by the US player Kerri Walsh, it is not obligatory to play that 1987 big hair Europe song “Carrie.” In fact, many cultures around the world discourage that behavior. Over here in the West, for example, the only cheesy Europe song we allow at our sporting events is the occasional snippet of “Final Countdown” late in the 4^th quarter of NBA games. That never gets old.