The pros and cons of being Michael Bublé

“I’m like Batman,” says Michael Bublé. “The only thing I asked for was socks with my family’s pictures on them.” It was a fitting wardrobe choice for Bublé, 46, as he discussed his new album, “Higher,” whose title track is based on a catchy vocal melody Noah came up with one night as the singer was overseeing bath time. “I was like, ‘Dude, bro — that’s a good little hook!’” For Bublé, the collaboration with his son — one of several originals on “Higher” to accompany his renditions of classics like “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” Sam Cooke’s “Bring It on Home to Me” and Willie Nelson’s “Crazy” — represents something of a personal triumph after Noah’s agonizing experience a few years ago with a rare form of liver cancer. But the feel-good song was also part of Bublé’s larger mission to create a kind of post-pandemic pick-me-up with “Higher,” his ninth major-label studio album — including 2011’s six-times-platinum “Christmas” — since he broke out in the early 2000s with a self-titled set that presented him as an heir to the ring-a-ding tradition once defined by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. “This is weird for me to say — I’d much rather someone else say it about me — but my voice is probably the best it’s ever been,” he says.