Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul are ready for another season of American Idol. They’re also prepared for another few months of trading verbal barbs.
Before mocking his fellow judge, however, Cowell first opened up to TV Guide about the crop of talent last season, saying it “just wasn’t good enough.”
It’s hard to argue with that assessment when the debut albums from finalists Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis fared so poorly.
Abdul even agreed with her supposed rival for a change, adding: “I don’t remember hardly anyone [from] last year.”
From there, though, Paula morphed back into her oddball self, describing the dynamic on the show, as, well, this:
“I’m the nurturing mom who breast-feeds these kids; Simon’s the disapproving dad. They come off the nipple and never say, ‘Thank you.’ They go, ‘Daddy, please pat me on the back.'”
But Cowell summed up his partner well – and got us excited for this season of American Idol – by simply saying:
“Paula’s possibly more out of touch than she’s ever been in her life.”