You Can Feel Me

by Har Mar Superstar

Overview

Har Mar Superstar is an enigma. The Minneapolis-based singer is one part performance artist, one part ironist, and one part darn fine R&B singer. Even more compellingly, his live performances (he has opened for the likes of Incubus and the Strokes, playing to huge audiences, including arenas) consist of Har Mar, aka Sean Tillmann, singing his ueber-sexed tunes to a tiny disc player while dancing provocatively and slowly stripping down to his tighty whities. The kicker is that Har Mar is a diminutive, profoundly out-of-shape, balding white guy. (His appearance has been quite accurately described as a cross between the actor Jack Black and '70s porn star Ron Jeremy.) Adding to the inwardly tightening circles of confusion: You Can Feel Me, his sophomore effort, is a darn fine R&B album. It certainly helps that the listening experience is stripped of Har Mar's visual presentation (the point of which may be to spoof the ludicrously soft-porn tendencies of modern R&B, a la Christina Aguilera). But You Can Feel Me is a genuinely funky, finely produced album that often bypasses white b-boy cheekiness. The slinky groove of "Power Lunch," which features an outstanding vocal performance by Har Mar, is as strong as anything on the urban charts in recent years. At other times, however, the tongue goes back in the cheek, or at least somewhere near it, as with Dirty Preston's obtuse white-boy rap on "One Dirty Minute," which boasts such goofy platitudes as "I'm putting ladies on layaway/ I'm making very sexy installments" atop a gulping, funky bassline. Nevertheless, one thing is undeniable: cosmic joke or not, Har Mar Superstar has put out a great record. ~ Erik Hage

Product Details

Release Date:	10/21/2022
Label:	Love Online
UPC:	0850037910038
Rank:	101031

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Har Mar Superstar   Primary Artist
Beth Ditto   Guest Artist,Featured Artist
The Busy Signals   Guest Artist
Tiny E   Featured Artist
Ric Diculous   Featured Artist
Dirty Preston   Featured Artist
Clark Beechie   Featured Artist
Broken Spindles   Guest Artist

Technical Credits

Har Mar Superstar   Producer
Tad Kubler   Photography
Chris Bellman   Mastering
Eric Olsen   Producer
Clark Baechle   Composer
Quincy Jones   Composer
The Busy Signals   Composer
Broken Spindles   Composer
Dan Monick   Photography
Mike Piscitelli   Photography
Jacob Thiele   Composer
Aaron P. Dimmel   Cover Photo,Design