(Updated) Paula Abdul screws up: She judges a song that had not yet been sung...

I did not mention Paula Abdul's massive screw-up in my 'Idol" recap last night because I wanted to focus on the performances and not to antics of the judges. But boy, Paula - who has different levels of lucidity on the show - gave a critique of Jason Castro's first AND second songs even though the dreadlocked singer had not yet performed a second time. When this was pointed out to her, she said: "Oh my God! I thought you sang twice! You know what? This is hard!"

Not really THAT hard Paula. I took notes during the show and kept up and I'm not being paid the millions of dollars each year like you are. This is getting a lot of attention already and I hope it motivates Paula to be more on-point and useful in her critiques.

UPDATE: Paula talked exclusively to ET.com about her flub: "It got very confusing ... the producers come up to us in the dark and said, 'We are not going to have you guys judge after each performer, we are going to have all the performers go once, then twice and at the end critique them.'"

Surprised by the last minute switch in judging procedures, Paula recounts, "I am feverishly trying to write notes for every performance. ... I was trying to give my critique for Jason Castro, and scribbled Jason's name, and that was David Cook's! ... We all just screwed up everything." She adds with a laugh: "This is live television. This is fun!"

Yeah, but she panned the second song! Was she panning Cook? Still doesn't make sense but at least she's not slurring.