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With the exploding popularity of YouTube in 2007, it is a little surprising that shaky live clips still outnumber directed and edited music videos by such a wide margin among local artists given the free promotion the video site affords. Here 225 looks at a cross section of this year’s local music videos. All can be seen on youtube.com.

The clip for Lil Boosie’s “Wipe Me Down” (below) is the only one of these you can catch on MTV, but if you’re looking for something that strays from the booze-and-booties norm of typical hip-hop videos, you’ll have to keep looking. Sweet Root’s “Half a Mile Away” shows the country rockers as too hardcore to be stuck on the bayou (or in a grandma’s tiny living room). Even the kiddies are hipsters in The Eames Era’s cutesy-comical “When You Were a Millionaire” video (above). Where else would a 10-year-old get a Lou Reed birthday cake? Harlan’s “Days of Delirium” hints that there may be a devious war for soul-stirring cassette tapes hidden beneath the surface of everyday music-making. “Please” by Remember the Fall uses a clever mirror trick and melodramatic silhouetting as a backdrop for it’s Creed-style arena rock. Then there is the strumming “Sweet Southern Moon,” Benjy Davis Project’s documentary/commercial hybrid for Abita Beer, the closest thing to a crossover commodity since LSU propped up The Terms and their much-maligned “Welcome to the Now” theme song.

Editor’s note: Jeff Roedel has directed videos for The Eames Era and Harlan, none of which are listed here.