Ellen DeGeneres may not have a musical background, but given Paula Abdula TMs pop-chart history, lack of experience may not hinder DeGeneres as an American Idol judge.

‘There’s not a better job on the planet than judging a karaoke contest,’ Stern says on his Sirius radio show.

Wow, did my ears deceive me, or did we actually spend 70 percent of “American Idol” on people who can actually sing Tuesday night in the Mile High City? Of the 30 second-or-more clips, we heard seven Hollywood-bound singers to just three hacks.