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CNN reported that “Chinese nationalists and state media can hardly contain their schadenfreude right now.”

In the opening lines of “Vilified,” the first track of his latest album, “I Want Blood,” he sings, “Simulate the feel / Of all that’s true and real / Hey-a schadenfreude crescendo / Hey-a skew the innuendo.”

“The problem is a lot of people misinterpret a lot of my dad’s work as schadenfreude, when it’s really not,” James said.

It it was a little bit of a schadenfreude moment.

But we have to acknowledge this other part of humanity that’s a kind of schadenfreude where we’re lusting for some violence.