Anderson Cooper Mocks Billy Corgan For Appearances In Pet Magazine, Furniture Store Commercial

Billy Corgan loves cats. Of course he does. This should not surprise you.

But Anderson Cooper is not cool with this. The fiery talking head recently ripped on Corgan for appearing on the cover of PAWS Magazine, as well as in a wrestling-themed ad in Chicago.

"So perhaps Billy Corgan is I don't know, off his alternative rocker," Cooper said on CNN (via Alternative Nation). "But I think maybe there's more to this, maybe he's being ironic, or maybe when the cool rock stars start doing less rock starry things, it kind of makes us face our own morality. See I want R.E.M. to stay just the way I know and love them, I don't want Everybody Hurts to suddenly be used in an Excedrin commercial. I don't ever want to see a product called Eddie Vedder's Prune Jam. I want to see neither Stephen Malkmus nor Thom Yorke on the cover of AARP magazine."

Corgan responded pretty quickly on social media.

AltNation also dug up this gem from an interview in which Corgan elaborated on his cats' Twitter presence: Corgan discussed their Twitter account last month in an interview with AlternativeNation.net when we asked him if the fame was getting to their heads, "(Laughs) Well, to their credit, their hubris was intact from the moment that I got them (chuckles), so their Twitter comments are a very good reflection of who they are (chuckles). But yeah, the fame definitely gets to them, for sure."

Consequence of Sound notes that Corgan has raised thousands of dollars through his association with PAWS, and that Cooper's past is not completely devoid of cats.

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