I use that "artificial" phrase when I sense no emotion in the music. But as CSchlegal pointed out to me, the idea that I get a negative or 'dislike' feeling from a musical piece, is indeed an emotion.
Also keep in mind, that every section of melody your hearing is written independently. Each melody has is own track, which a keyboard was used to write it. So he'll have 4-5 keyboards doing quite different melodies yet flowing in harmony together very nicely. This would be a good example of counterpoint? correct me on that if Im wrong. :D