Song by Song: "I Can't Make You Love Me" Quiz

Answer: Bonnie Raitt

"Luck of the Draw" was released on October 22, 1991 and was produced by Bonnie Raitt and Don Was. "I Can't Make You Love Me" was the third single to be released from the album. The song peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Answer: Mike Reid

Mike Reid, who released three country music studio albums of his own, co-wrote the song with Allen Shamblin, a country music songwriter and musician who was born in Tennessee and raised in Texas. Reid spent five seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals and retired after the 1974 season.

Answer: Bruce Hornsby

Born in 1954 in Williamsburg, Virginia, Bruce Hornsby is a singer, songwriter, and pianist in the genres of rock, blues, bluegrass, and gospel. In an interview on SirusXM, musician Phil Collins described "I Can't Make You Love Me" as being "instantly recognizable" as Hornsby's work, even though the pianist himself had no hand in writing the song.

Answer: George Michael

The single was released from George Michael's third studio album "Older" on January 20, 1997. His version peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart.

Answer: Boyz II Men

The Boz II Men version was released on October 27, 2009. This bluesy version of the song peaked at number 75 on the U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart.

Answer: Adele

Adele's version was recorded live on September 22, 2011. Although never released as a single, it made the top 40 on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number 34 on the Scottish Singles Chart.

Answer: Priyanka Chopra

Chopra's version was released on April 22, 2014 from her debut studio album. Her version is in the elctropop genre and uses electronic dance music. Chopra's rendition of the song peaked at number 28 on the US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart.

Answer: head

According to Toby Crewell's "1001 Songs: The Great Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories and Secrets Behind Them," Mike Reid got the idea for this song from a newspaper article about a man who was arrested for drunkenly shooting at his girlfriend's car.

When asked by the judge at his trial what he had learned from the whole experience, the man answered, "I learned, Your Honor, that you can't make a woman love you if she don't."

Answer: patronize

The singer doesn't want the person to whom this song is addressed to "patronize" her by pretending to feel something he doesn't:

"'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't."

The singer knows this may be the last time the couple is together:

"Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't."

American Indie folk band Bon Iver recorded a version of this song and released it as a single in 2011.

Answer: When morning comes

The singer promises that by morning she will let go and accept that the object of the song doesn't love her and move on:

"I'll close my eyes, then I won't see
The love you don't feel when you're holding me
Morning will come and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight."

"I Can't Make You Love Me" has been covered by artists ranging from Prince and Patti LaBelle to Tank, Nina, and Joe Locke. Ruben Studdard, the winner of the second season of "American Idol", recorded a version of this song in 2014.