"I did my best to play my assigned role." They both knew what that role was -- a keyboardist who was competent enough to justify her position in the band while providing gratuitous fanservice and eye candy appeal. "And yet it seems to have not been good enough."

Had she been performing better, management wouldn't have felt the need to break them apart. A competent and capable band, one that brought in earnings and plaudits, would have been left together.