You might have already noticed this idk, it’s the type of thing I like to point out to people when I want to detract from their enjoyment of a song that’s playing.

This one is what I have been calling “pseudopolyrhythmic”, not sure if there’s an actual word for it. Basically you have a polyrhythm but truncate it at some point to match a meter in which it wouldn’t normally fit. You’ll hear this a little on some king gizzard tracks although they tend to go fully polyrhythm/polymeter. Other than that there are of course some common beats that would technically count but I don’t feel they actually evoke the polyrhythm so I don’t count them.

Anyway you could divide the intro into 32 8th notes, there’s a regular 4/4 dancey type beat, and then another that hits on every 3rd 8th note 10 times but only lasts for 2 on the 11th. And actually it sort of becomes an actual polyrhythm by the end, except really it’s not as 3 against 4 sounding. Is this why the track goes so hard? Idk but I like to think so.

Then again Taylor Swift has a song in 10/8 (I shit you not) and it’s entirely unremarkable, so apparently there’s more to making good pop music than fucking with people’s usual dancing and clapping motions.