Q: come on, you gotta be kidding me that you don't count "movie star" 3 +6 ?
A: looking at the finished product from a distance, i can understand why it might be reasonable to use all 3s. but i always heard the 1st bar as 4. i think this is because the idea was born in 4, and then soon after i realized i wanted the second bar to linger for a slightly unpredictable amount of time. there was some question about how many beats to actually leave the second bar hanging. it was also originally written for vine, so really if it had ever been on vine, i never would have had time to let the cycle go around with no vocal. i would have had to sing the lyric on every cycle, rather than every other. this would most likely mean that i would have made the second bar a few beats longer to add more space between the lines. probably would have been 4+7. ... regardless, the original line came to me in 4/4 with the emphasis on the 4th beat, tied over.