Lucifer season 5, part 2 has a musical episode, and the soundtrack is filled with classic songs. It's becoming more common for various genre shows to have at least one musical episode during their run. Ever since Lucifer moved to Netflix, after being canceled by FOX, the drama has expanded its layers outside of the Devil consulting Detective Decker with murder cases.
While the show did explore the celestial elements that came with Lucifer, the move to Netflix has fleshed it out to higher levels that would likely never have happened on FOX. With Lucifer season 5, part 2 finally out on Netflix, the long-awaited musical episode has also arrived.
Episode 10, "Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam," sets up the musical element through God making everyone break into song. As Lucifer struggles with his father being on Earth, there are multiple moments where characters start to sing, specifically to reflect what is going on with them emotionally. Here's every song in Lucifer season 5's musical episode, and when they play.
- Chris Isaak - "Wicked Game" - After the fallout in "Family Dinner," the musical episode opens up with an emotional Lucifer as he starts playing "Wicked Game" on his piano. "Wicked Game" is a song that is based on loving someone who isn't good for you in the long run, which is the problem Lucifer and Chloe were dealing with at that point.
- Queen - "Another One Bites The Dust" - When Lucifer joins Chloe and Ella to investigate a murdered football referee, Steve Rockwell, that is when he starts to notice something is off. As Ella begins to dance, the entire field of people breaks into "Another One Bites the Dust." To establish the musical concept in this particular show, "Another One Bites the Dust" is cleverly chosen due to the deceased victim. Although the coach does get resurrected at one point, he sings for a bit before going back to being dead again.
- The Police - "Every Breath You Take" - Later on, Lucifer and Chloe interrogate a student named JJ, who allegedly sent Rockwell a threatening email before his death. But JJ's mother displays many control issues; Lucifer tries to ask the kid what he wants to do with his life, as his mom claims her son doesn't know what he wants. Given the similar issues Lucifer was having with his father, he and JJ's mom begins to sing "Every Breath You Take" to parallel the two sons' respective search for agency.
- Mash-Up of George Thorogood & The Destroyers's "Bad to the Bone"/TLC's "No Scrubs" - As Ella struggles with trying to lock her attraction to bad men, Mazikeen wants her to embrace it. This is where the musical episode does its first and only mash-up of "Bad to the Bone" and "No Scrubs," sung by Maze and Ella, respectively. "Bad to the Bone" fits Maze's current state of mind as she doesn't see any potential for good in her, while "No Scrubs" perfectly sums up Ella trying to reject bad men from entering her life.
- Finger Poppin' Wallers - "Hell" - After Dan meets Lucifer's father for the first time and discovers that he had slept with God's ex-wife, the detective gets overwhelmed. Thinking this means he will go to Hell, Dan, and the whole LUX bar begins to perform "Hell," to make it very clear how worried he is for his soul in the after-life.
- Grover Washington Jr. - "Just the Two of Us" - Linda and Amenadiel had conflicted thoughts of Charlie not being an angel baby after all. That leads to a stroll in the park to become Linda and Amenadiel's musical moment in relation to their son.
- "Smile" - Towards the end of the musical, God tries to approach Chloe, which causes Trixie to sing "Smile" as her mother reflects on the current situation with Lucifer. Despite wanting to, God isn't able to go through with it and leaves.
- "I Dreamed a Dream" - The musical concludes with Lucifer and God having a bigger heart-to-heart talk, with the former expressing his anger about how his father treated him. This leads to them singing Les Misérables' "I Dreamed a Dream," reflecting on when things just used to be easier.