Great pop music can move you in odd ways.

On the surface the Lee Hyori song "Special" off of her critically acclaimed fifth album "Monochrome" is upbeat and sunny, the kind of hard-edged dance track that the singer is known for.

But there is a sadness at the center of "Special," maybe just from the pure earnest beauty of Lee's effortless vocal that allows the song to cross into the sublime.

In the wake of brilliantly staged music videos for the two previous singles "Miss Korea" and "Bad Girls," off of "Monochrome," it's unreasonable to expect Lee Hyori to top herself.

Yet as sonically innovative as "Bad Girls" and "Miss Korea" are, "Special" almost creates its own genre of music with the disparate elements stitched together in bone-dry, big beat production.

It's this type of musical innovation that makes "Special" the best song on "Monochrome."

The legendary producer David Briggs, who recorded several Neil Young classic albums like "Tonight's The Night" and "Zuma," used to refer to "the spook" as being critical to any great recording.

He used it to mean the darkness, something unknown, something almost evil.

Although the intro and beat of "Special" is sunny and pure, when the ancient sounding gritty organ strains enter, the song is clearly of the night.

It even starts to sound like an old monster movie organ in the inspired chorus.

By joining these sonic elements together, with a beat that is built on top of the unlikely bed of a looped a cappella bass vocal, Lee and her producer have almost invented a new style of music.

It doesn't sound like K-pop but it isn't Western pop either. It is almost otherworldly.

That's one reason why "Special" the best song on the new Lee Hyori album: the amazing originality of joining the spooky organ with the sampled upbeat baritone male voice is something totally new.

And at the center of it all is Lee's voice.

She does some of the best singing of her career on this track.

No vocal acrobatics, nothing that would wow the judges on some reality show, just a heartfelt performance that brings the song home.

She even does a little laid-back rapping, which instead of being awkward is endearing, before sinking back into her best vocal moment of the whole song.

There could be an amazing music video for "Special" (I'm thinking Michael Jackson's "Thriller" meets "The Thing") but that's not the point.

"Special" is the best song on "Monochrome" because it just feels the best the most real, the most moving, the most original, and that's really the best that music can do.

Listen to Lee Hyori's "Special" RIGHT HERE