Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are not content with merely one Oscar. The songwriting duo, who picked up a statuette last year for writing lyrics to the La La Land tune “City of Stars,” will not rest until their mantles sag with the weight of gleaming, golden statuettes. They came close to a second win this year, thanks to their Greatest Showman smash hit “This Is Me”—but ultimately lost out on the award to “Remember Me,” the Coco song by duo Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. (Lopez, by the way, became the first double EGOT in history, thanks to this latest win; Pasek and Paul are both merely GOT winners, since neither has yet secured an Emmy.)

So, what do you do when you lose an award to Disney? If you’re Pasek and Paul, you immediately reveal that you have aligned with the studio yourselves. In a recent interview with Variety, the duo said that they have been tapped to work with one-man Oscar machine Alan Menken (eight wins and counting) to write lyrics for the upcoming Aladdin live-action reboot, a movie that is all but guaranteed to scoop up an Oscar nomination for its music.

“We got to collaborate with one of our heroes, Alan Menken, and we collaborated with him and wrote the lyrics for two new songs,” Pasek said. Menken, as most musical nerds well know, is the composer of classic Disney songs for movies like Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, The Little Mermaid, and the original Aladdin, of course.

Pasek joked that he and his writing partner spent a lot of time with the music legend just trying to “suck him dry for all the stories that he would tell us.”

“He’d be like, ‘Guys, let’s get to work,’ and we’d be like, ‘Another story, another story!’” Paul added.

“We probably delayed work for several weeks just trying to be like, ‘Tell us about Ariel! Tell us about Ursula!’” Pasek continued. “We freaked out . . . and [are] really thrilled to be part of the Disney family, too.”

We’re all sort of one step away from being absorbed by Disney, aren’t we? The corporate behemoth will eventually scoop us up one by one, soothing us with the saccharine tones of whatever inspiring Pasek and Paul song wins an Oscar next—unless, of course, they get thwarted by a Frozen 2 song by the Lopezes. Both films are coming out in 2019, which means Pasek and Paul are going to have to write the absolute hell out of their Aladdin lyrics. Here’s to the 2020 Academy Awards!