That may be true, and I'd say that's more opinion oriented, but what it really comes down to is if it is good music or not. I'd say that it is. It's very unique and was produced very well. To address the vocals being muffled - that was probably intentional to make the vocals seem more of an instrument, which they're not alone there. And I'm not really in the middle school scene so I can't speak for that, but if it is really popular there then well, at least they're finally listening to half decent music. You can't judge the quality of music based on the crowd that listens to it.
Sorry for the lack of sentence structure. I'm on mobile and am real tired.