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The film is so visually dense, so rapidly wordy, so referential to its own form, that details fly by in a blur.

I now live on the side of L.A. where the styling of luxury items is either ironic or referential.

But it’s creating an interesting position for designers to be forced to come up with new things that no one’s seen before, that aren’t referential.

Intersected at its peak by a thin crescent — most likely a representation of the Golden Order, the dark fantasy world’s ruling theocracy — it feels bluntly referential to saints and prophets and resurrections.

The feverish “Tortured Poets Department” is a full-throated return to her specialty: autobiographical and sometimes spiteful tales of heartbreak, full of detailed, referential lyrics that her fans will delight in decoding.