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If you were old enough (as I am) to actually have grown up in that era,
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I am old enough.
All that you say about fitting components like choice of a singer that should help the song become sort of authentical, or that 007 is not to be taken serious, is right, but what has it to do about the fact that Goldfinger has become accepted as a piece of music by itself?
Would you put garbage in the showcase just because it fitted so properly in the garbage ton?
I relate to it as what it appears to me as a piece of music and as such it is still an inferior quality fake of a genre. It sounds just rediculous, no matter how well it might be considered to fit to the movie.
What Dylan is concerned, yes he was bound to a unique period and he without question was a great song writing talent. And he is another good example that an imperfect voice can still make an interesting singer. But when it comes to authencity ( right spelled?) as you mentioned, I don´t take him for serious either.
He says it himself that he isn´t interested in politics. Actually he is a rather reactionary type and held weapon industry stockings already in the times when his fans thought him to be a fighter for human rights. For him the revolutionary mood was a fashion on which he had his success. No prob though as his work supported the mentality in those times anyway, - but so far about authentic work.
Goldfinger musically gave me even much less of an authentic feeling, no matter what means or purposes. A work awfully fiddled together.
