Contributing to the "Coach Carter" soundtrack has given Ciara an idea: Next time she does a soundtrack, she wants to be in the film too.

"It's just a matter of time," the singer said. "I mean, I have so many aspirations, and people know that I want to do modeling, and I want do acting for sure. There's definitely some things coming, and I just say stick around and watch. I've just got to make sure that I make the right choices and make the movie that's best for my career."

For now, she's happy being the first lady of crunk & B (see [article id="1492035"]"Ciara: First Lady Of Crunk & B"[/article]), and while she doesn't like that particular title so much, she likes the idea behind it. "Some people wanna give me this title of the princess, the queen, the first lady," she said. "I mean, it's cool to know that I was the first to do something good, setting a trend, because it's very hard to do that. But that's just me, just being who I am."

And when you're measure up just who exactly she is, don't put too much emphasis on age.

"I wanna take it back to the old days," she said of her musical goals. "You know, I wasn't born in the '70s, I didn't grow up in that era, but I have an old soul, and I know what I feel like when I listen to those old-school records by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston. You know what I mean? The feeling, it feels so good, and it feels so real, and I just want to take it there. I mean, remember when we used to dance and we used to rock?"

Ciara's been doing her part to get fans on the dance floor with her current hit, "One, Two Step." She said because the video involves teaching a dance routine, it was extremely important that all the steps be just right -- so much so that she dipped into her own pocket just to make sure. "After we got the first edit, I was in Japan, I was on the phone, calling, 'This step needs to be right here,' " Ciara recalled. "My phone bill was like $700, you know, 30-minute calls from Japan to America. It was crazy, but it was so important to me."

Even though the dance steps -- once you learn them -- are relatively easy, Ciara said, making the video wasn't as painless, thanks to the coordination required to sing and dance at the same time.

"You've got to be able to squeeze the muscles just so," she said. "It's so involved that if you think about it, 'I gotta breathe right here, do this move right here,' you'll lose it."