Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe has given his opinion on the rise of social media in the music industry and revealed that sites such as Twitter and Facebook give people too much access to the stars they look up to.

During an interview with Digital Spy, he explained that the 'mystique' is taken out of bands these days because now we can check their online pages to see what mundane things they fill their days with:

"This isn't to sound like I long for a time before these things existed - I for one embrace the medium and think in a lot of ways it's the only way artists can actually control how they can be heard - but the pressure to constantly update takes away some of the mystery and mystique of art."

"I loved it when I didn't know what Chris Cornell had for breakfast, or God forbid I ever found out what pair of pants Chuck D decided to put on that day."

Referring to his own experiences of music pre-social networking, Lowe added that he "didn't even know what Thom Yorke sounded like to speak to for the first two Radiohead albums": "I loved the idea of them being superheroes to me. Would Superman be Superman if he was mystified by Twitter every day?"

Watch Zane Lowe's reaction to Beyoncé's Glastonbury set here: