★★☆☆☆
Introducing his underwhelming new album to journalists at a bar in central London this week, Justin Bieber was a picture of affability. OK, so he did tell a feeble story about throwing an orange at the testicles of one of his entourage, and he urged us to “trust God through the bad days”, which fell rather flat with the heathen audience. Other than that, it was goofy charm all the way. Which is some going for a former child star who was once known as much for throwing eggs at his neighbour and abandoning his pet monkey in Germany as he was for his breathy tenor and weightless R&B.
That could be because the Canadian star is 25 now, a ten-year veteran of the