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Sometimes the blandest pop stars manage to have the most successful careers. As long as their personalities don't overshadow the music, all it takes is one more great song to keep them at the top of the charts. Look at Kylie, still a massively successful enigma after all these years.
Canadian-Portuguese singer Nelly Furtado seemed destined for the dumper after failing to come up with anything quite as memorable as her 2001 hit I'm Like a Bird, but she was flexible enough in 2006 to allow hip hop producer Timbaland to give her a completely different sound, and the result was the fabulous Maneater.
It was such a huge hit that when the rules about downloads entering the charts were changed, it joined Gnarls Barkley and Snow Patrol in leaping straight back in to the Top 40 and propelled her on to winning Best International Female at the Brits last week.
Now, on her live return, its rumbling synths will sound rather incongruous next to all her early prim acoustic pop, but she'll be grateful she's still around to sing it. (0870 400 0700).
