Our June statement: stop turning every human feeling into PR
Venomous Sin has published a further statement on political correctness and emotional censorship. This time the focus is the exhaustion of constantly rehearsing a socially acceptable version of yourself. Every joke needs a defence brief. Every disagreement needs a corporate translator. Meanwhile, calculated cruelty strolls through the room in immaculate language and somehow passes the fucking inspection. We think that contradiction deserves to be dragged into daylight. The June article develops the argument beyond our earlier statement. It traces the distance between ordinary consideration for other people and a culture in which expression is judged through the worst interpretation available. Those are different things. We value the ability to question, laugh, grieve, flirt, argue and speak imperfectly without turning every exchange into a contest to discover the most punishable sentence. Our position leaves room for people to answer back. A blunt statement can be challenged. A joke can fail. An opinion can be wrong. The point is that real discussion requires people to remain present, rather than performing flawless emotional paperwork until only the most calculating voices are willing to speak. A room full of rehearsed approval is not evidence that everybody in it has been heard. That distinction matters to the work we make. Xavi and Lina bring different moods and experiences into Venomous Sin, and our music does not resolve those differences into one approved personality. Anger, affection, absurdity and darkness can share the same catalogue because human experience is capable of holding all of them. We refuse the expectation that authenticity must arrive smiling, deodorised and ready












