“I just felt kind of ‘Bruced out,’” he said. “I was like, ‘Whoa, enough of that.’ You end up creating this sort of icon, and eventually it oppresses you.” Taylor knows how that story goes. She’s been there too, a few times. When a star is so obscenely wealthy in the currency of Nice, they might wonder, like Bruce, Is this really me? Am I this icon? Would I exist without it? Am I really a kind, loving, honest person, or am I just Nice? Could I leave the prison of Nice behind me, just go free, for just one day??