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The Weeknd’s new collaboration with Daft Punk, “Starboy” (XO/Republic), is, by every available metric, blowing the fuck up; the SONGS star co-penned the single with the Because Music/SONGS robots (aka Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter) and Kobalt’s Martin “Doc” McKinney and Henry “Cirkut” Walter. SONGS mucky-muck Ron Perry's concept of pairing the artist with robots was allegedly inspired by Westworld.