Negotiated Brief - 'Retro Glamour'

Lady Gaga - The Fame.
'Give me something
I wanna be, retro glamour, Hollywood
Yes we live for the'

As this is only 2 words, my intention was for the final resolution to be bold and eyecatching.
I tried a few different typefaces and layouts...

I liked the above example, but I felt the one above that had a more 'retro' feel too it.
I then copied that, added a 3D look to it and then vectorised my hand rendered piece.



I really like the following piece but I'm not sure it would be totally readable if somebody didn't know what it actually said in the first place.

I printed the following piece A2 with the intention of adding gem/rhinestone/sparkly things too it...
...however, once I printed it out, I realised it wasn't really going to wokr because the gems didn't fit exactly in the blacked out area or the 3D area so it would look quite messy...so I ended up using it as a size reference and just stuck the gems on plain white paper.

Below are smaller mock ups that I did before the final to make sure it would work.