Last week on X Factor 2012, Emblem 3 surprisingly said goodbye to the competition, barely missing a spot in the finale. The trio took some time for some parting words, following their elimination.

Well, OK, one of the three hogged the mic and let me just say let’s hope you’re not the spokesperson of the group. I have little to say because he’s totally unquotable. He just rambled on and on and on about nothing. Putting words together that should never be together. Poor guy.

Wesley finally got a chance to speak up, briefly.

“I feel like we sucked all the juice out of it,” Wesley said. “Everything we needed from X Factor we got.” (OK, maybe none of them should speak and should just stick to singing).

I hate to kick a guy (or 3) while they’re down, but this exit interview, when it wasn’t embarrassingly belligerent, was pretty arrogant. I’m kind of glad I never voted for them.

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Last week on The X Factor 2012, we said goodbye to Paige Thomas and Vino Alan. Paige headed out instantly as the artist with the least amount of votes, while Vino was in the Bottom 2 along with Diamond White. The judges decided to send Vino out and keep Diamond.

Now we’ve got Paige and Vino’s exit interviews and they’re both very hopeful and optimistic.

“At the end of the day I really wanted to go further and try and win this thing but I can honestly say that I am walking out of this being myself,” Paige says. “I’m happy with the note that I left on.”

There was a lot of talk going on about her not taking Demi Lovato’s advice last week and when she was asked if she regretted not listing to her mentor, she shrugged it off.

“I do not regret it,” Paige said. “I am the only person who has to live with what I’ve done on stage. I’m very happy.”

Paige actually sounds pretty OK with  being eliminated. She says she’s ready to get out there and tackle this thing. She says she wants to get into acting and modeling and finally make her own music instead of covering other artists like she has on X Factor.

Vino is also ready to see what happens next.

“I think everything is lining up,” he says. “I’m sure somebody up there’s going to hit me up and we’ll make some records.”

A lot of people are pointing the finger at L.A Reid as the one responsible for Vino’s elimination. But Vino doesn’t blame him. While Vino did’t care for L.A.’s one choice, he said he also didn’t put his foot down, so he’s as to blame as anyone. He did want to do something modern and more his style, though.

Find out what else the two eliminated sings had to say in their exit interviews after the jump.

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Last week on The X Factor 2012, the Top 8 was left standing as Arin Ray and Beatrice Miller were sent home.

Now we have the two eliminated contestants’ exit interviews to share with you and both of them bring up great points about what is wrong with this show.

“I feel like he basically said I’m not ready and that basically means I need to give up,” Beatrice said if judge Simon Cowell. “You want more of encouraging words, which he didn’t give me.”

Beatrice is devastated and is ready to give up. Which brings me to my first point I mentioned above. The age limit for this show is TOO young. Those singers’ voices aren’t done developing, but that’s not even the worst part. The worst part is how emotional they get and what that can do to a person their age. No one at the age of 13 is emotionally stable to be thrust into this temporary stardom then have it ripped out from under them. I digress.

So what did Arin have to say? He brings up my other point: let the singers choose their own songs!

Arin says he wasn’t in his element the past two weeks and he didn’t seem to be happy with the songs he was given to sing. He’s appreciative of Britney and says she’s amazing, but he hints that she may not have given him the best songs to sing.

Just let them pick their own songs, X Factor.

Find out what else Beatrice and Arin had to say in their interviews below.

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Last week on X Factor 2012, we watched as Amercia’s votes sent home Lyric145 and Jennel Garcia.

OK, so technically, L.A., Britney and Simon sent home Jennel, but it was America’s votes that put her in that situation. After the dramatic results, the two eliminated acts paused for their exit interviews and we’ve got both of those for you below.

Despite being tossed out of the contest right at the start of last week’s results show and not getting to sing for their lives, Lyric145 remains quite upbeat. Their attitudes are good and they’re very thankful for the opportunity. And it sounds like they’ve only just begun.

“I promise this is not the end and I promise we won’t let you down,” Lyric Da Queen says. So the X Factor-assembled group might giving this thing a go, it sounds.

Jennel Garcia isn’t bitter by any means, but her spirits seem to be a bit more crushed. She’s really confused that Simon voted to send her out despite all the praise he has given her.  But like Lyric145, she says it’s not over for her.

“Just because X Factor is over for me does not mean that anything else is over for me,” Jennel said.

Find out what else both acts had to say in their exit interviews below. And check back here Wednesday night for live coverage of the Top 10 performance show.

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