I’d bet the band all played to tracks over Zoom or something, separately, and they edited it all together beforehand. Alanis is probably singing live over that queued-up track as a picture-in-a-picture. Switching that many cameras remotely is nearly impossible, but having both audio and video as a backing track to cheat it is pretty easy.
Interestingly, the latency problem, and playing with it, was something they encountered during the planning for Live Aid. They were originally trying to get David Bowie and Mick Jagger to perform live in Philadelphia and London at the same time, but the satellite delay meant that you couldn’t keep both of them in time with a single track. So they tried to exploit the delay to sing One Love by Bob Marley, with the echo working for the call and response bit in the chorus. But further technical problems put paid to that idea as well. One of them would have had to be miming to a backing track to get the effect to work, and there were a bunch of things that could go wrong. So the frustrated conclusion, as voiced by Mick was “Sod it, we’ll have to do a music video instead.” And thus the cover of “Dancing in the Street” was born.
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Somebody please tell Peter Griffin that it happened, that we all let it happen, and how it happened.
You could do it in a chain. Drummer plays to click track-> bass player hears drummer and plays along->guitarist hears bass and drums -> etc.
You could remotely mix by controlling the level each musician feeds into the mix.
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