For six years the judges have criticized, complimented and congratulated American Idol contestants. After sitting through the entire spectacle from year to year, do these three have special insight into which singers America will pick to win? Paula Abdul has made her predictions…do they match your own?

In her Morning Show with Mike Juliet appearance, Paula Abdul named the group she thinks will make it all the way to the end. Carly Smithson, David Archuleta, David Cook and Michael Johns are Abdul’s final four, unsurprising picks considering this group is a mix of those considered popular front-runners.

Abdul also dished on her method of critiquing contestants, which ranges from utter nonsensical babble to strange metaphors about colors and lights (when she’s not saying she wants to “squish” their heads off). “I try to give them something they can hold onto,” Paula said of her comments, “leave them with grace and dignity…and back it up with constructive criticism.” Really that’s what you try to do? Abdul often leaves contestants with open-mouthed confusion as far as I can see - when she’s not standing oddly behind the judges’ table, stumbling around.