After heavy listening over a year I have to say you are right.
this track has potential as seen here.
on the album they did these annoying retrigger effects and left out the pauze before the outlander sample kicks in.
BYTE is right, I like vocals to lie deeper in the mix as the pop mixes today,
but the “worlds on fire” sample is way above that. and this also happens in the beat, the weird “poiow” sound from the beginning is triggering the explosive nature in this track, not the kick, the kick is very shallow in this track, what did they want here, it’s a total opposite to the rest of the album. it’s still very good though.