Kid Sister Keeps Things Clean for Her Parents

Kid Sister may pose a little seductively on the cover of her debut album, 'Ultraviolet,' but while skin is in, she's staying covered. "I got parents. I'm not trying to show all the business," Kid Sister, aka Melissa Young, tells Spinner of her demure look. "Me and my girlfriends always laugh -- we're like, 'You know, there's a reason why we don't do all the sexual s---. It's 'cause we have parents."

Instead, the 'Ultraviolet' cover features just Young's face, while other shots for the record see her in a modest leotard. "I just wanted it to look like me, I mean I wanted my face to be on it, I wanted it to be pretty," she says.

The album was retooled a couple of times before it finally dropped in November, but Kid Sister actually finished the record on May 14 so she could go under the knife.

"I had a trapped nerve in my elbow and it was making my right hand degenerate," she says. "It was making it atrophy. That's the hand I write my music with so thank goodness. I finished my album and I was like, 'All right! Let's do this.'"

Since then, she's been using her fixed-up hand to work on new material with a hometown house and techno legend.

"I wrote a new song with Green Velvet, who is a legendary house producer," she says of the man who also goes by the Cajmere moniker and is known to the taxman as Curtis Jones. "I wrote a new song called 'Everybody Wants' and it's kind of in the old-school vein, like Jamie Principle kind of stuff. It's a little bit different than what I normally do and it was fun and anything for Cajmere."

Naturally, working with the hometown legend was a thrill for Kid Sister.

"I grew up with him in my ear every single day -- 'Circulator' mix tape! I was tuned into it all the time," she says. "That's the one time that stands out [that] I really got star struck. When I met him I was like, 'Whoa!' 'cause he's so awesome and so great."