He’s got some great songs. Now all he needs is a great attitude to match.

Justin Bieber’s got himself some musical cred, but that means nothing if he can’t muster any enthusiasm for his concerts or his fans, writes Cameron Adams.

Justin Bieber wanted some alone time, and got it in Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges during his recent visit. (Pic: Instagram)

Justin Bieber’s new Australian tour has pretty much everything — including his own faux skate ramp.

There’s constant fireworks, energetic dancers, elevated stages and deafening volume.

One simple thing missing from Bieber’s sold out Melbourne show on Friday? A big smile from the man 50,000 people had come to see.

Sadly, there were times in the sold out concert where Bieber looked positively bored.

Maybe that’s his thing, that ‘cool’ detachment, but when you’re on stage in front of fans who’ve coughed up big bucks to see you, try to feign interest.

And pro-tip — when you’re singing over your own recorded vocals at least put the microphone in front of your face for the whole song, not just the occasional lyric.

That only happened twice, but it was during Baby and What Do You Mean, two of his biggest hits, and it was symptomatic of the feeling Bieber was lazily phoning it in and going through the motions in Melbourne.

It wasn’t as diabolical as Britney Spears’ sole Australian tour, where the best she could do was to goldfish to her hits for a few hours and keep the cash rolling in.

But when your own fans are Tweeting that you didn’t look happy playing in front of them, something’s not quite right in Biebertown.

Justin Bieber’s Melbourne show boasted incredible production and high energy, if only it had come from the star himself. (Pic: Tim Carrafa)

Just when you thought Bieber had turned a behaviour corner, he gave some good douche off stage in Melbourne.

Who knows what happened to provoke him to give a fan shady side eye and tell her “you make me sick” but he’s smart enough to know everything is filmed and Bad Bieber is big news.

Yes it must be tough being a modern popstar being hunted via social media, but Bieber has form for odd treatment of his own fans.

He has really pushed the popstar/fan relationship into tough love territory.

First there was the axing of paid (and highly lucrative) meet and greets on this Purpose tour, after photos of him looking dead-eyed and Tussauds-like blew up online.

At the time, last year, Bieber told fans the meet and greets left him feeling “filled with so much of other people’s spiritual energy that I end up so drained and unhappy. Want to make people smile and happy but not at my expense. I always leave feeling mentally and emotionally exhausted to the point of depression.”

Bieber found it easier to muster a smile in 2009, when he played the Nintendo World Store. (Pic: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

Depressed by meeting cashed-up fans for a few seconds. At least he was proactive, but he did state that not meeting the fans would mean he stayed “in the healthy mindset to give you the best show you have ever seen.”

Melbourne didn’t see that, at least not from the star of the show.

On this tour Bieber, 23, has lectured his fans that screaming at him during concerts is “obnoxious”, chastised people for clapping off the beat and requested they “be quiet and listen while I’m talking.”

Then there was the time he told fans at a radio rooftop show in Melbourne to stop singing along with him during his acoustic set so they could hear his voice.

These are the people who keep him in a job. People singing loudly to your songs is a classic first world popstar problem. He’ll really miss the screaming fans when they’ve moved on.

Melbourne got a robotic Bieber who didn’t speak for 30 minutes and barely interacted with the crowd beside the cliches.

Make no mistake, the production is fantastic. It’s a top shelf pop concert smartly designed to replicate club culture (heavy bass, hi-tech lasers) so it felt more like a Calvin Harris set at Stereosonic at times, complete with some of the douchebros in the crowd who he’s picked up in the last two years with his cred-by-association collaborations with Diplo, Skrillex and Ed Sheeran.

Justin Bieber showed signs of learning his lesson when he arrived in Brisbane, and greeted fans from his car window. (Pic: Adam Armstrong)

Bieber’s a year into the Purpose tour with months more to go. Some concertgoers said he was unusually lethargic in Perth too, but a heavy work schedule is no excuse.

Bruce Springsteen is three times Bieber’s age and is playing four hour shows where he makes the setlist up on the fly.

Adele is playing crisscross with Australian stadiums with Bieber this month and her fan interactions and between-song chats are making the mammoth venues seem more intimate.

Coldplay manage to make every show seem like they’re playing the most important concert of their lives.

Bieber could take some advice from his mate Ed Sheeran who entertains a stadium on his lonesome. Every bell, whistle, dancer and band member on the Purpose tour is designed to showcase a pop superstar, so if he was on fire it would have elevated everything to the level of his heroes like Michael Jackson.

Bieber’s stuck in a weird transitional mode; Purpose was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammys but it’s as if every scream bothers him or anchors him to the past.

There is hope. Bieber was snapped arriving in Brisbane hanging out the side of his car and being pleasant to fans. But it’s a real worry if someone in Bieber HQ has had to remind him to be nice to his fans.

Cameron Adams is a News Corp national music writer.