Kids’ Choice Awards Fug Carpet: Paula Abdul

Do you think this outfit is supposed to be symbolic? Like, that Paula feels trapped — bound by the whipping, chafing chains of being on a high-profile national show like American Idol and having to meet everyone’s weekly expectations that she try to look younger and stranger and more in-tune with These Kids Today every time she makes an appearance? To the point where all the stress and pressure chills her to the elbow and forearm bones?

Or do we think she’s just still a total loon by nature?

I think I vote the latter.