This whole 10 pg thread is about success and making it into the real world, because what Koda went through, many have to go through. This is nothing out of the ordinary, it's just life.
You can't always get what you want, you can't run the show yourself. Following rules and "standards" show your responsibility and maturity. She sacrificed herself for a goal which she very much achieved.
We shouldn't feel "bad" for her, she is successful and she is building stability (career wise) for whatever plans she has for the future.
Also, Max isn't the bad guy. He is the money maker, he is the one who brings to us all of our favorite artists. He is not mean or nasty, he is honest. Honesty is a good virtue. If he hadn't told Koda to loose some pounds, I doubt we'd even know her name by now.
Business is business and what sells sells. Nobody can change that but society and I doubt that will happen anytime in our generation, or the next...or the next
