From Innocent Devotion to Empowerment
Information Poster
Poster design
Dec 2025
Individual work
This poster explores how love in pop music evolved from innocent devotion to empowerment and self-love. Using Billboard songs around the designer’s birthday, it maps a cultural shift from “us” to “me,” revealing how love songs reflect changing ideas of identity, agency, and emotional independence.
The small “We / You / I” chart measures a subtler transformation: the voice of the love song itself. As the timeline progresses, the language shifts from collective or second-person expressions toward a more self-defined first person, reinforcing the project’s movement toward agency and empowerment.
Color is used as a curatorial tool.
Pink identifies songs that engage with love
red highlights the tracks that most clearly represent the poster’s central theme and emotional progression.
Main chart: shows the full timeline of songs by year, genre, title, and artist.
The source material is drawn from Billboard charts published around November 30, the designer’s birthday. This personal framework turns a mass-media archive into a more intimate cultural record.
