I don’t watch American Idol so I don’t really care who is judging it but I must say I was surprised to hear that Ellen DeGeneres is replacing Paula Abdul as the 4th judge this season. What music experience does she have aside from the time she went carolling with Britney Spears? (photo above)

“Hopefully I’m the people’s point of view because I’m just like you… I sit at home and I watch it. … I’m not looking at it in a critical way from the producer’s mind. I’m looking at it as a person who is going to buy the music and is going to relate to that person.

And for you fans of her day show – it’s staying on the air: “I’m going to have a day job and a night job”. lol, both Stacey & I have had the pleasure of having a day and night job and we wish you the best of luck Ellen. Hopefully your jobs are a little less demanding than ours

Stacey: Well, if my day or night job paid me millions of dollars, like I am sure both of Ellen’s are, I would have no issues working 2 jobs.  But, alas, we are not that fortunate.

As for Ellen being on AI.  This is why I hated these shows when I had cable.  Ellen is saying she is just like everyone else watching. People think that just because they have eyes and ears that makes them qualified to judge something, like AI or So You Think You Can Dance.  Its just a big popularity contest.  The crowd boos the judges after they give an honest and accurate judgement on a contestant…guess what people, sometimes they were bad…sometimes they do actually suck!  Just because they are likable does not make them good singers or dancers.

But Ellen will replace the “nice” factor that Paula had.  

I still won’t be watching.