After botching her recent musical “comeback” Paula Abdul should probably just settle in for as many years as she can on American Idol. Unfortunately no one’s given Paula that message – and the sorta singer/dancer/choreographer has decided what she’d really like to do is join the cast of Dancing with the Stars. Though her recent “Dance Like There’s no Tomorrow” was panned musically, once thing is still true about Paula – the woman can dance.

“I’m just hypothetically thinking about it,” Paula revealed to OK! after sitting in on Monday’s taping of the hit ABC reality competition. And, despite being on a competing network (Idol airs on Fox), she claims there would be no conflict with her show. “There’s a thing called the ‘off-season,’ I think.”

“It’s all Tom’s fault!” she joked, adding, “I’m a huge fan [of DWTS]. It would be a phenomenal experience for me to be a student and to learn a form of dance that I’ve never been introduced to.” But before all the Paula fans go setting their Tivos for next season, she advises, “I’d be honored, but that does not confirm or deny anything that’s out there right now.

And though Paula first gained notoriety for choreographing dance routines for some of the biggest artists in pop, incredibly, she insists that she’s never been a professional dancer. “I was always a choreographer… But I’ve never been able to be a student and I’ve never done partnering. If I even dabbled with it, I had to be the guy and that’s not fun. I want to wear the pretty dresses like the girls.”

[From OK Magazine]

Paula’s never been a dance student, but she was a professional choreographer? That’s like saying you’ve never taken piano lessons, but you’re a piano teacher. What I hope Paula meant to say was that she’s never been a professional dancer… because she’s obviously been a dancer of some sort. But Paula’s always been a little batty, so just because you’d think logically she must have meant something else, doesn’t mean that’s the case.

I think it’d be a little unfair for someone who’s good enough to have been a famous choreographer to be on Dancing with the Stars. A big part of the fun is watching people with no dance training improve over time. I never find it as interesting to watch the celebrities who have some dance background. It’s just not as impressive to me when they learn to master something. If Paula Abdul learned to master the tango, I wouldn’t be as floored as if Oprah learned to tango. Now if she learned to tango with MC Skat Kat, that’d be totally different. Sorry, it’s hard to write a Paula Abdul story and not mention the Kat.

Here’s Paula Abdul at the Kritik Clothing Party on April 10th at Lisa Kline in Beverly Hills. Images thanks to PR Photos.