[maneayu]

I've read most of the comments here, and I can relate with only one opinion.
My fandom for her decreased because of her voice. Besides her *produced or not* life history, her voice was one of the top 3 things I was looking forward to all the time, specially at the time of buying her new CDs. Starting from Guilty, my interest of buying new albums from her decreased. Yesterday I rewatched her performances at Kouhaku, and I noticed that since 2007 her voice is not the same. She does a hell of an effort to stay tuned while singing flat. I understood at some point in time that all was related to the meniere disease (ear condition), therefore I bought Love Songs merely because she sounded tuned yet flat. Later on, I completely lost the interest of buying new stuff from her (well, the other day I bought rock n' roll Circus for 280 yen at Book off though)
Regarding her nasal and high pitched voice, she was singing already like this from before. Now, her main problem is that she cannot hear herself very well and she keeps on shouting instead of singing, exaggerating all her voice attributes.