Lana Del Rey: In Praise of a Difficult Woman

One writer’s attempt to explain Lana Del Rey’s “question for the culture.”

Lana Del Rey (C Flanigan/Getty)

“A bad woman’s got something a good woman ain’t, and a good woman’s jealous of that something…afraid of it.” — Dangerous (1935)

Lana Del Rey is the kind of pop star (and feminist) who Liz Phair said she had hoped to inspire. Del Rey would…