The music industry is always aimed at teenagers dreaming or wanting to be or are in love. Hormonal changes mixed with cash and cheap consumer goods is a gold mine. However, I don’t think this record would have sold many as this song is about a boy who loved Agnes who was a spy – they are bred young in the USSR. The boy gets it out of his system that he was being used and by the end he is frankly glad that she is being electrocuted for breaking his heart, because of the line more power to you Agnes. When she is dead he will have no qualms in moving on.

Maybe there is some truth to the song in that we would like to have unfaithful exes put in the Chair because when you a teenager, there is no reasonable middle ground.

I’m not sure whether this is Cold War song or whether it is a spoof, or whether it is a broken heart song or all three, however you can’t deny that the influences of the time helped the writer to come up with a narrative.

Agnes, oh Agnes
Oh, how I love you
Agnes, oh Agnes
Oh, how you made me blue

Agnes, oh Agnes
Life’s more than I can bear
Cause Agnes, my Agnes
They’re giving you the chair
But even though you are a teenage Russian spy
Agnes, my Agnes
I’ll love you till you die

(Speaks in slightly weird accent)

I can’t help myself Agnes,
I love you till you die Agnes
Wave bye bye Agnes
More power to you Agnes

Thanks to grandprix1963 for the upload

. Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus is better.