Hi JT, glad that was useful. I'm not sure I can picture exactly the beat you mean, but if you have any example songs I'll check it out...
As far as strict time signatures go, I'd say that the accents could be anywhere (and can be missing on the 1), but that if you change the number of beats in a bar, you've changed the time signature, which is perfectly OK as well! The underlying beat does not need to be accented or even played to be felt (think about the end of the chorus of I Feel Good by James Brown).
James
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