Paula Abdul Falling Apart on American Idol Season Five - Is it Time for a Change?

On the American Idol Top Five performance night, Paula Abdul completely fell apart. For years, Paula Abdul has gradually appeared more and more out of it but the American Idol top five show was an all time low.

After each of the top five contestants performed their first songs, Paula Abdul was called upon to comment on each of their performances. Abdul not only commented on Jason Castro's first song, but his second song as well. Problem was, Jason Castro had only sung once. As a matter of fact, all of the contestants had clearly sung only once. Additionally, fellow American Idol judge Randy Jackson had just commented before Paula Abdul about each of them.

There is no way that Paula Abdul could have overlooked the fact that Jason Castro had sung only once. There has been an increasing wave of people that have wondered about Paula Abdul and what was wrong. This latest complete collapse of attention span will fan the flames considerably. It was beyond weird.

In the past, Paula Abdul has slurred words, as well as acted very strangely on American Idol. Is this the end of an era for the American Idol Judge? I certainly hope that she gets this worked out as I have always been a fan of hers. However, something is certainly amiss on the American Idol stage.

When Paula began to critique the second song, Randy Jackson stepped in and corrected the fact that Jason Castro had only sung once. Thank goodness, as she was about to move on to David Cook and do it again. Simon just began asking her to simply say who her favorite was. Ryan Seacrest was in a panic because of time constraints presumably. All in all, it was a mess of an American Idol episode.

Should Paula Abdul be replaced on American Idol? If she can not get hold of herself, then I feel she certainly should. If there is something going on that is not public knowledge that explains her odd behavior, then maybe American Idol or Paula Abdul should say so. To let this go on week after week is not fair to Paula Abdul, or American Idol fans.

American Idol is a wonderful show and I believe Paula Abdul is a wonderful woman, but something is certainly not right. It is time to address this before it becomes even more of an issue than it already is.