What Is Real Music?

There was a discussion taking place. What is REAL music? What is real in music? Who is real? And if we talk about who is real, then who is fake? How can we seek out the real and differentiate from the non-real? With the discussion at hand, many people with many different perspectives had many different opinions. We heard one after the other until pretty soon we had come full circle with all the different views. Then someone said "Lets go back to the original question, 'What is REAL music', we can not define music, because if we define it then we limit what it is. We limit the potential it has to be something more than what we all see. We stop it from growing and moving with the times. From shifting with each generation and developing its own norms, values and responsibility. Once you define something you kill it. You trap it in a box and stick a label on it. We can NOT define music."
The Thought.
To define something puts a tag on it to let people know what it is. Mainstream media does it everyday. From the billboards we see to the ads at the grocery store. Everything has a tag. Everything has a label. Regardless of what the product may come to be or what it really is, it has a tag. Maybe its what it was supposed to be. We never know what to expect from anything. If we did there would be no excitement. If we knew what to expect from every album, or every song. Music would die. Music would no longer be music. Music would be nothing.
The Realization.
Let it be. Let the philosophers have their philosophies, let the theorists have their theory, and let the scientists do their studies. But more importantly than anything else. Let music be music.