Believe

When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of…

Check out our album review of Artist's Believe on Rolling Stone.com.

I realise that teen idoldom is hardly the territory to hunt for innovation, but even so, this is a pitifully timid affair.

If you subtract the remixes, acoustic versions, live takes, and holiday material that filled Justin Bieber's releases from 2009-2011, Believe falls only a few tracks shy of doubling the singer's quantity of original songs.

Justin Bieber's third album has enough to suggest it might just see him start to appeal to an adult market, writes <strong>Hermione Hoby</strong>

It sounds a lot like Believe was recorded on both sides of the chasm.