Kara DioGuardi in Place Just in Case

Kara DioGuardi has been added to the judging panel for America Idol Season 8. Maybe they need another female in place, just in case Paula actually does go off the deep end?

Kara and Paula are friends, or at least they were before the decision was made without consulting Paula. There was no group meeting to see if the chemistry was there. The final call belongs to Simon and perhaps having an extra judge will force Paula to keep her comments to a minimum.

When asked, Paula says she feels that:

"It takes the fun out of all the hard work I do to push those kids through."

Paula has, at times, been a nice balance between Simon and Randy, but there have been way too many rambles like this one:

Idols Past: A.J. Gil

A.J. Gil was number eight from Season One. There's not a whole lot of information on A.J. out there and even his own website still says "New Site and sounds coming soon" and that "A.J. has taken on many new and exciting, please come back soon.

If you have forgotten who A.J. is, here is a clip from Season One of American Idol:

Paula Abdul Can't Sing

We already knew that, didn't we? Paula Abdul was all about the dancing. She had a cute voice and with the aid of electronics and vocally talented back up singers, she could put out an album, put on a show, do some dance videos and be Paula Abdul. It worked, back in the eighties and into the early nineties.

Rumor has it lately that Paula is not committed to her comeback as a singer, rumors fueled by the fact that she has canceled her Today show appearances twice now. Speculation runs that it is from fear that Matt Lauer would ask her, again, if she's ever been drunk or on pills, or that she's afraid of some snafu, like the Ashlee-Simpson-Saturday-Night-Live debacle, since her single Dance Like There's No Tomorrow is so heavily synthesized that she probably wouldn't be performing it live, just like the "live" Superbowl Performance.

Who knows what she sounds like "live" these days, but this is what she sounded like at a live performance back in 1991. Sometimes, it's just better to lip sync: