I don’t think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

Aguilera frames “raunchy” not as a flaw but as a legitimate expressive register within burlesque, an art form historically built on erotic suggestion, satire, and the performer’s control of the gaze. The quote argues that burlesque’s value lies in its freedom to push boundaries—sexual, comedic, and aesthetic—without being policed by conventional standards of “taste.” Implicitly, it also defends performers’ agency: what might be labeled crude from the outside can be, within burlesque, deliberate craft and empowerment. The statement positions burlesque as a space where transgression is not incidental but central to its artistic identity.