(1) the fear of not being hip (hence the breezy know-it-all tone);
(2) the fear that one's hard-won critical stance in young adulthood is bollocks ('cause here are these teenpoppers making smarter music, or so some people seem to think);
(3) fear of teengirl sexuality;
(4) fear of mainstream girls who are flaunting their sexuality while being insufficiently butch;
(5) fear of the teen audience;
(6) fear of the mainstream audience;
(7) fear of being boring

«Interesting that it does seem to be all around teen girls. I never noticed anyone suggesting I was a perv for liking the teen Arctic Monkey guys who did "I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor" or for that matter back in the day liking the teen Spoonie Gee who recorded "Spoonin' Rap" or the teen Cure guy who recorded "Killing An Arab."»

«Ciara Harris, wearing fluffy yellow slippers roughly three times the size of her feet, sails across the floor of her plush Kensington suite, bestows a gracious air kiss and settles herself into a couch in one swift movement. Far more ebullient than one would expect at 10 in the morning, her chocolate brown eyes open wide as she says in a warm, Southern drawl how much she "loooooves" London.

(...) Her music, unimaginatively given the moniker of crunk'n'b, defused the music's testosterone-fuelled aggression with sensual, breathy vocals and subtle, minimal melody, and her first album Goodies spawned three international smash hits - three of this decade's finest pop singles.

(...) In person, Ciara brims over with a peculiarly American strain of ultra-confidence, manifest in a stream of quasi-religious corporate speak. It leaves the listener with the slightly uneasy feeling that, even though Ciara makes a point of holding eye contact, she's really talking past you - not to another person, but in the sense that her focus is permanently on a greater picture than such minor concerns as a conversation.

(...) Ciara originally trained as a dancer, rather than a singer. That fact is important: along with Justin Timberlake, Ciara is arguably the greatest dancer in pop music right now, someone who approaches dance as an art form rather than merely background choreography. (...) That sense of rhythm is also key to the appeal of Ciara's voice: it is a thin instrument that has been criticised for its technical limitations next to R&B belters such as Beyoncé, but it possesses a compelling elasticity, jumping and darting nimbly along the melodies.»