What Would the Community Think is the third studio album by Cat Power, the stage name and eponymous band of American singer-songwriter Chan Marshall.

[3] The songs on the album range from "rhythmic dirges" (such as "Good Clean Fun") to down-tempo tracks ("Taking People," "Water & Air").

[7] The lead single, "Nude as the News" was Cat Power's first song to receive an official music video in 1997, directed by Brett Vapnek.

"[10] Michele Romero of Entertainment Weekly wrote that Marshall "raises goose bumps on What Would the Community Think with bluesy, traumatized songs on which she whispers laments over a spare arrangement of guitar and drums.

"[16] Biographer Elizabeth Goodman referred to the album as Marshall's "most violent, angry work, a deranged epic filled with sadness, guilt, and defiance.

"[17] Rommie Johnson of The Tampa Tribune described the album as "Quiet, [but not] mellow...  Cat Power builds tension through repetition, then eerily cuts things off without a trace of resolution...  her understated tales of epistemological doubt may just be missives to herself.