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time signatures are how music is "organized"
the most common is 4/4, which means there's 4 quarter notes per measure, when you're actually playing music this is what you're following to keep the whole song together and that's the job of a conductor in a large group, they're basically a human metronome and help keep everyone in sync cause it's really easy to get thrown off entirely otherwise even if you have a strong sense of internal rhythm
time signatures don't have to be just quarter notes per measure, it can be half notes (x/2) eighth notes (x/8) or even sixteenth notes is that composer is a fucking hipster
it also doesn't have to be just 4 quarter notes or 8 eighth notes a measure (4/4 or 8/8, but those two are identical in practice) it can be any amount, and changing the time signature into weird shit is how you get more unique and unpredictable sounding music
toby is not only using fucking weird time signatures (11/8 and whatever the fuck else) but he's switching time signatures constantly, even sometimes measure by measure which makes the song sound incredibly disjointed, which is the whole point
it would make actually performing the song REALLY fucking annoying since the literal rhythmical foundation of the song is constantly changing, when measures begin and end usually denote when major parts of the song start and finish, so having it jump around that frequently is like changing the foundation of a house as you're building it