During these episodes, we see Zeke and Mylene both grappling with their future as it’s tied to music. Zeke goes back and forth between Yale and the get down before making his choice to commit to the music with Shaolin. However, every time Mylene is brought up she’s disparaged by Shaolin, usually being called a bitch. Her singing career is a battle between being a purist virgin for her father and the church and being more sexually explicit for the record label. Asheton specifically said sex sells and her religious themes would have to get the boot in order for her to succeed in the mainstream. The discussions about the direction of her career, what she’ll sing, what she’ll wear, and where or when she would perform were all decisions made without her, not allowing her any agency in the process. Her options are to be sexualized or to flop and so she doesn’t have a choice if she wants her dreams to be realized. Even though her genre isn’t hip hop the same sexism still informs the music that gets played and produced. As Rose mentions in the reading, record labels and corporations continue to push sexism because they profit greatly from it. Mylene’s worth is tied to her sexuality which may seem more liberating and open than her oppressive home life but in reality, is just another side of the same token; if she chose to stay “pure” she would be operating under a hostile sexist idea about women remaining chaste virgins whereas if she chose to go down a sexualized path she feeds into the objectification and sexualization of women. There is no one right choice because each choice has its own set of consequences but as long as the choice is hers I think that’s what really matters.