Record labels would mix, produced, and master music and sell copies of the master to different areas of the country. However, this allowed record labels control over black art. Currently, the problem of record labels controlling and buying out black artists to bring out of their poor backgrounds, which is a form of slavery in the music industry. The adaptation of blues brought secular concepts to the forefront of music. For instance, Bessie Smith would sing about her man leaving her thus inducing a feeling of somberness and loneliness. Blues shifted the landscape of music from religion to secular.