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Along with Adam Lambert of “American Idol,’’ Susan Boyle was 2009’s most famous second-place finisher. Now that the people who couldn’t seem to get their heads around the idea that a middle-age woman who didn’t fit the current standards of beauty could actually have a pretty singing voice have recovered from feeding their YouTube jones, what does Boyle do? She offers up a perfectly innocuous album of church songs, pop covers, Broadway show tunes, and a seasonal number - “Silent Night’’ - that continue to prove that point but little else.