Jenny Lewis' "She's Not Me" Music Video Pokes Fun at Her Child Star Past—Watch Now!

Singer enlists help of famous friend including Fred Armisen, Zosia Mamet and Vanessa Bayer to pay tribute to her iconic late '80s roles

By Rebecca Macatee May 27, 2015 7:38 PMTags

Long before Jenny Lewis was a successful indie-rock singer, she achieved a very different kind of success: Child stardom!

The former Rilo Kiley musician, now 39, isn't embarrassed by her younger years onscreen—in fact, her newly released "She's Not Me" music video playfully pays homage to her child star past!

For the creation of the quirky clip, Jenny enlisted the help of several of her famous friends, including Fred Armisen, Zosia Mamet, Vanessa Bayer, Feist and Leo Fitzpatrick. Together the pals parody some of Jenny's earlier work, including her TV roles on Golden Girls, Roseanne and Mr. Belvedere as well as her film appearances in Troop Beverly Hills, The Wizard and Pleasantville.

"The video is about former identities and incarnations of one's self," Jenny wrote in an email to BuzzFeed Music, who was first to premiere her music video. "It's a super meta retrospective on my career."

When she's not being "super meta," Jenny doesn't dwell too much on her child star past. Of course, she'll never really escape her days of doing the Freddie with her Wilderness group! In an interview with HuffPost Entertainment last year, she was asked which era of her career she gets approached about the most. "It varies," she said. "When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me. But, in the end it all comes back to Troop Beverly Hills."

"Regardless of my creative output, it always goes back to 'Cookie Time,'" she quipped, calling it "my proudest work"

Her latest music video isn't half bad either! Watch "She's Not Me" in the clip above.