Her latest album, Bring Ya to the Brink, is her first studio effort in seven years and is being released in Japan more than a week before anywhere else.

She did a full round of promotional appearances on TV and in the interviewee’s chair for publications, in addition to a free concert at Tokyo Station in the center of the capital, where she banged out four songs and, according to reports, spent most of the brief concert in the crowd rather than on the stage.

The audience of 100 was invited, though about 2,000 passers-by could enjoy the show on the fringes. Lauper said she will probably return to Japan in the fall for a tour.