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Spotify is cutting about 200 people, or 2% of its workforce, as the streaming company reworks its podcast unit

Lewis Capaldi has cancelled all performances leading up to his Glastonbury gig at the end of June.

No, spies aren't all focused on national security. Yes, the CIA did deploy a mission called Operation Acoustic Kitty.

A crowd of 60,000 fans screamed the Grammy award-winner's Afrobeats lyrics back to him at the London Stadium.

The Driving Crooner is popping up all over the shop, but who is he? A good Samaritan who picks up people who are way over-the-limit on a night out and drops them home is the easy answer, but the reality? He's the biggest meme from the new season of 'I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson'. Each season of the Netflix comedy has enjoyed a breakout skit with perhaps the defining one coming from the first season; The infamous 'hot dog man' - who is omnipresent in the replies of anything a politician ever tweets. A perfect response tweet to the ever-evolving disaster that is the 21st century. However, the Driving Crooner from the new season - season three - could be about to blow that away, and honestly; for no good reason apart from it being excruciatingly funny in the stupidest way. It's not a response to anything. It's just nuts. This explainer is not going to do it justice. Here are the memes, stay for the explanation. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter As explained, the skit starts with a man offering his number to colleagues so they avoid drink-driving (an accident had occurred to a colleague). One colleague takes the man up on this and calls him. Smartly dressed, he arrives taxi-like, picks the colleague up and drives off, starting some small talk. So far, so normal - but with only minutes in the sketch remaining, so many angles appear. Firstly, the man announces himself as The Driving Crooner - and nods to the decals on his driver-side window (a fedora and a cigar). Then he starts to scream and alter speeds as the traffic flows around him at speeds that do not line up the decals with his head (the others are trying to make him look fake). Then a bunch of "frats" arrive in an SUV and tell him they are going to kill him. Then he almost breaks out into tears wondering how he is ever going to make money from The Driving Crooner idea (it's too good, you see). Finally, he berates a dog-walker for "trying to steal his decals" (he is 50yds away, minimum). It's the perfect Tim Robinson skit of an earnest idea presented to the world by a man who thinks the world revolves around him, only to find out there is genuine lurking threat, a bit of sadness, and a whole lot of chaos. Go stream I Think You Should Leave right now. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

Disney Studios Motion Picture boss Sean Bailey has not ruled out the possibility of Johnny Depp returning as Captain Jack Sparrow in a future 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie.

James Wan has explained how climate change will feature as a theme in the "serious" movie 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom'.

Marc Almond says TikTok has brought the timeless classic to a whole new audience.

The Norwegian beat the bookies' favourite, South African amputee dancer Musa Motha, on the TV show.

Studio bosses at Disney are working on a third instalment of Hocus Pocus after successfully reviving the film for a sequel

Michael Keaton had "the most fun" he's ever had on a movie set making the original movie.

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES Audiences swung into theaters for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse," giving the animated film