
Paula Abdul said: "Jason, first song, I loved hearing your lower register, which we never really hear, um... the second song, I felt like your usual charm wasn't - it was missing for me. It kind of left me a little empty. The two songs made me feel like you're not fighting hard enough to get into the top four."
Fellow American Idol judge Randy Jackson told Abdul that there had only been the one song, and after realising the mistake she had made the singer added: "Oh my god, I thought you sang twice!"
And Simon Cowell commented at the end of the show: "This was officially the strangest show we've ever done.