ARIEL’S GOT bigger fish to grill than losing her voice or man. Pocahontas’s favorite tone for wind-painting is unexpected impassioned Euro-revenge. And a pretension of Belle’s supplement competence good be “Beauty and a Bestiality.”

The Disney princesses, in other words, are holding a spin for a darker verse.

In a newly viral video “After Ever After,” these characters, and “Aladdin’s” Jasmine, orchestrate as they burlesque a distortion of “they lived happily ever after.”

The sharp-tongued, sweet-voiced satire strain is a latest comedic charity from Jon “Paint” Cozart, a 20-year-old film tyro during a University of Texas in Austin who’s already a seven-year maestro of crafting YouTube videos.

“I grew adult on Disney movies. we positively adore a music,” says Cozart, observant that he performed, available and edited a new video all by himself.

Comic Riffs held adult with Cozart early Friday to pronounce about his singing goals, his dream roles and a art of creation a vital on YouTube:

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MICHAEL CAVNA: As good as your [previous] videos have been, “After Ever After” seems to take a amusement and execution adult even another nick or two. Can we tell us … what was it like to emanate this one?

JON COZART: I got a suspicion for a video around Nov final year. It took me about dual weeks to write a lyrics, and another dual months to record a audio. It was unequivocally tough with Disney music, since it’s so iconic that if we strike one wrong note you’ll hurt a whole song. we available a video dual weeks ago. we had a ton of vital assignments due for college, so we had to record any partial around 1:00 a.m. for 4 nights in a quarrel in front of my wall. we edited it together, sent it to my sister, and she pronounced to re-record it with colored posters in a credentials and straight videos. So we re-recorded it all on Sunday, edited it on Monday, and expelled it on Tuesday.

MC: Wait — we re-recorded this whole video in a day?

JC: I already had a tools memorized from formerly recording it. we wrote out a actions of any take on a notepad in front of me and worked from there. It took about 4 hours.

MC: What was a toughest thing about formulating this impossibly syncopated video? And did anyone assistance we write it and/or emanate it?

JC: The toughest partial was recording Belle’s audio. It’s such a wily song! There’s indeed about 10 apart audio marks in a final version, and Belle was a nightmare. we wrote, recorded, and edited a whole video myself. we don’t have any veteran microphones or recording equipment, and we usually use my video editor to brew a strain since we don’t know how to record a song.

MC: Are we yourself a fan of Disney’s charcterised characters — and have we ever played any, in any arrange of production?

JC: I grew adult on Disney movies. we positively adore a music! Alan Menken is a personal statue of cave and I’ve sung his strain all my life. I’ve never played any Disney characters on stage, though, usually in a shower.

MC: The usually verse that [uses a pejorative] is “Chinamen” — was that a unwavering choice to hang with that?

JC: While we was essay it, we asked my relatives if “Chinamen” was a derogative tenure and they overtly answered no. We suspicion it was like observant Frenchmen or Englishmen, though now I’m entirely wakeful it is not a same. we unequivocally would have altered it had we known. None of a amusement comes from a malicious, secular place.

MC: What do we mostly do as a performer these days? Do a YouTube/iTunes checks mostly compensate a bills?

JC: I’m study Film during a University of Texas during Austin. I’m creatively from Arkansas though we changed to Texas during age 6. … YouTube videos are my usually opening outlet. we was unequivocally into high propagandize theater, and we found a lot of success there. But we consider there’s some-more success to be found in film for me. we support myself mostly by iTunes sales. I’m so beholden for a people who buy my music. we never dreamed we would acquire a vital this way.

MC:

You’ve certainly had your share of auditions — can we pronounce to carrying YouTube as a approach opening to fans as against to perplexing to land roles and be seen?

JC: YouTube is implausible since anyone can do it. If you’ve got talent and adequate drive, we can make it happen. I’ve been creation YouTube videos for 7 years, and a initial 5 years were hugely unsuccessful. But a some-more we failed, a some-more we wanted it. we don’t have an representative or a manager or a YouTube network, so we don’t try-out for people too often. With YouTube, we can do whatever we want. we don’t have to answer to casting directors or try to fit into a “type.” we adore YouTube since we can pronounce directly to a people who deposit in my work. And it’s good since they like accurately what we like: Disney movies, Harry Potter, film villains, “Glee.” We applaud a adore for something together, and we can’t get that anywhere else.

MC: So if we were to play Broadway, say, what would be a dream purpose for you?

JC: That’s such a tough question. we consider a Leading Player in “Pippin” would be amazing! Or anyone in “Book of Mormon” or “Sweeney Todd.” Or Gabe from “Next to Normal” or an additional in “Light in a Piazza” — like we could sing any of those songs. It’s usually an unfit question.

MC: Are there any performers who generally enthuse we and whose work you’ve studied? And whose career would be wish we to have if anyone’s?

JC: I’m hugely desirous by Broadway musicals, privately Stephen Sondheim, Jason Robert Brown and Stephen Schwartz. Bo Burnham’s also a large impulse to me. we eventually wish to approach films, so ideally I’d like to follow in a footsteps of directors like Paul Thomas Anderson and David Fincher. They seem to have finish artistic control over their films. It’s a dream!