Ditto the drum sound. It sounds really muffled. I'm not a fan of the 'verb on the snare, either.
I'm thinking your CR and/or mix room have a highly uneven response pattern at your work position. There's this rather nasty low mid humping I don't much go for and it makes your overall mix sound muddy and dull.
Side-by-sided with some mixes of little known Austin bands (happened to be in the subscription player queue when I popped in your mp3) your mix sounds
really muddy.
I keep thinking the villain is the CR/mix room.
Another issue: I notice things peak at 0 dB -- but a representative section of the main part of the song has an RMS average about -16 dB. I'm against squashing but commercial pop mixes can range from a relatively spacious -14 dB to well under -10 dB [ugly in my book but, hey, that's what the suits say the kids want, huh?
] -- looking at the wave form shows there isn't much besides kick drum in the top 6 dB. A little rejiggering of your compression might help.
Just for fun I did some quick but radical re-EQing on your mix and came up with something that on my monitors sounds a lot better. (And I think it makes your mix make a
lot more sense. It's not bad once the EQ is tinkered, seems to me.) There are still some issues with it and I'm sure if I were to take a little longer, I could get it a lot closer to what I think you're probably going for.
That said, if you were to play 'my' tinkered file on your rig, I strongly suspect it would end up sounding way overbright. That's why I was asking above about reference mixes. When you can't be sure of your mix room, it can help to listen to known 'good' mixes for your given genre to give you guidance.
I posted an mp3 below.