A dance-pop album, Venus includes themes of love, heartbreak and also explores Larsson's personal relationships with her family and friends.

[3] For the project, Larsson enlisted songwriters and producers Casey Smith, Rick Nowels and Danja to help her "pin down" the sounds she wanted to include.

[4] In an interview with the Official Charts Company in April 2023, she told fans to expect "uptempo, fun dance songs" as well as the "emotional balance".

[8] A press release described the record as a "pop album fit for a goddess" that determines Larsson's "own agenda" partly by "looking back on where she's come from".

[17] The cover art of the digital and streaming edition reenacts the Sandro Botticelli painting, The Birth of Venus, and depicts Larsson as partially nude with a long golden hair and an "H" tattoo honoring her sister Hannah and holding a pink chrome seashell.

[22] Writing for Clash, Luke Winstanley stated that Venus was "heaps of fun" and "packed with plenty of europop bangers to satisfy the faithful", though he criticized Larsson for surrendering to "commercial viability" during the album's "unfortunately frequent lows".

[23] Michael Cragg from The Guardian appreciated the album's upbeat tracks but criticized its more serious, slow songs, commenting that Larsson was better at saving those emotions for "big floor-fillers".

[24] In a mixed review for The Skinny, Lucy Fitzgerald criticized Venus for feeling "out of date, trafficking in facsimiles of overproduced, mid-to-late 2010s pop".