Every half-decade or so, Justin Bieber sloughs off the callused skin of the pop superstar he became at age 15 to reveal the tender and quirky R&B singer he’s always been at heart. He did it in 2013 with his album “Journals,” then in 2020 with “Changes.”

Justin Bieber shocked fans by dropping a surprise album, his first in more than four years, after days of posting photos of himself in the studio. The 31-year-old singer released his seventh studio album,