Full disclaimer: I came here today ready to defend Lana Del Rey. I had a really well-conceived, intellectual argument about Ms. Rey and her confusing past—which is arguably strange. The artist stirred up controversy last fall when news outlets uncovered her first stab at the music industry under her given name, Lizzy Grant. Little Lizzy had a bit of pink in her bottle-blond hair and would have been right at home in any midwestern high school’s “alternative” crowd.
