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Last week I saw Jenny Lewis kicking off her Acid Tongue tour, this week the album came out, and wow — I cannot get enough of this girl. Yes, she was already my favorite in pretty much every way, but somehow she never disappoints.

Like this eloquent interview in 1991, two years after Troop Beverly Hills and The Wizard — her big hits as a child actor — for Teen Set:

Despite the hilariously awkward interviewer, directing and editing (a minute-long trampoline jumping montage?), 15-year-old Jenny classily fields the question, “Is there anything you’d like to say to all the fans and people that write to you or read about you in Teen Set?”

“You really have to care about your planet, you know, because without the planet we wouldn’t be here. You really have to start recycling and stop using aerosol hairspray and aerosol cans and really start caring about other things beside themselves.”

Aw.

The video also shows off her hat collection at the time — which helps explain all the fedoras on this tour? (Three out of six band members, including Jenny, wore them at my show in Lawrence.) Just like her magnificent songwriting evolution of the past few years, her vintage wardrobe is certainly swinging effortlessly from country to glamorous to cutesy (and back) these days…

In Nashville, via LanceCo.

In Austin, via Patrick Dentler.

In Oxford, Miss., via caroline+lee.

In Chicago, via Patr.ck Mart.n.

Backstage in Lawrence, via the Pitch.

First photo in Lawrence, via trp0.