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Released in 2007 What Is She Doing? stands as the definitive “pop album” in the highly unconventional discography of New York avant-garde artist and singer-songwriter Marianne Nowottny. The project represented a playful yet subversive turn following her earlier groundbreaking works. Nowottny famously approached the album’s creation with a delightfully audacious blueprint: setting out to craft a homemade R&B and pop record that was, in her own words, “as much Fleetwood Mac as Lil’ Kim.” What Is She Doing? filters mainstream pop aesthetics through an uncompromising outsider lens. The album’s tracks are built upon a foundation of primitive electro beats, low-budget keyboard lines, spacey electronic textures, and minor-key synth arrangements. Over these off-kilter grooves, Nowottny lays down her unmistakable vocals, shifting seamlessly between smoky, sultry crooning and raw, strained emotional intensity to create songs in a variety of styles that are equal parts catchy, hypnotic, and unsettling. Critical reception for the album highlighted Nowottny\u2019s remarkable ability to bend accessible genres to her singular, otherworldly vision; a captivating fusion of pop immediacy and experimental subversion. Ultimately, What Is She Doing? demonstrates how a visionary artist can absorb mainstream pop tropes only to dismantle and reassemble them into a unique sonic tapestry.<\/p>\n

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Track Listing<\/h3>\n
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  1. What Would I DO? (3:13)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. All Over The World (3:00)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Cherry Blossoms (3:50)<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Never Been In Love Before (3:43)<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Starts Fell On Alabama (3:08)<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Mr. So & So (2:16)<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Burnin' Up For You Baby (2:52)<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Keep Our Love Alive (4:02)<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Big Idea (3:56)<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Why I Cry (3:18)<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Kung Fu Kitty (4:52)<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. I Dont Wanna Fight (4:16)<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Where You Are (3:26)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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