Does Taylor keep getting pulled back to “nice” because it embodies these fucked-up gender clichés? Is it the demand for female niceness, the way “nice” divides and defines women? Is she reclaiming a word scorned for its girliness? Fighting to liberate the twee? Or just making the best of a trite platitude? It’s a trinket of a word, a cheap piece of tinsel, yet she pins it to her lapel and wears it proudly.
