Who is Frida Kahlo as mentioned in Don Drink The Water?
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter whose most famous works were self-portraits. The lyric mentioning her in ‘Don’t Drink The Water’ is likely a reference to paintings that portray her numerous miscarriages. The paintings are of herself lying naked in bed covered in blood, hence the line “when you looked like Frida Kahlo curled up in bed”. She suffered many miscarriages (likely the result of a freak accident from childhood) and was never able to fulfill her dream of having a child. Recent attention has been brought to Kahlo’s story through the Selma Hayek movie Frida, which is based on a biography by author Hayden Herrera.
