KT Tunstall: 'X Factor artists are clogging up the airwaves'

Scottish musician KT Tunstall has revealed that the music industry is mostly a huge money-making machine that is churning out flavour of the week-type acts in order to rake in the cash.

She explained that Simon Cowell's manufactured artists are being given airtime over genuine music acts, who have worked hard and paid their dues to get where they are:

"Parts of music have become a complete corporate exercise. It's always happened but it's just happening now on a much larger scale."

"The amount of artists putting music out now is unrecognisable. Be it Cowell's label or whatever, they're basically taking up a lot of air space when the new Bowie or the new Lou Reed can't get on the radio because X Factor has clogged up the airwaves. And it's not longevity, it's about money."

"There's tons of female performers where you can tell they're getting their bums and boobs out because it's going to sell their record. You can tell pretty easily which women in music are expressing themselves and celebrating their incredible hot bodies like Rihanna and Miley Cyrus and are making their own decisions and are in control of it."

Watch KT Tunstall's music video for 'Evil Eye' here: