The word "middletown" was meant to suggest the average or typical American small city.
A typical American city has 20 to 50 broadcast radio stations.
"Baltimore is not a typical city for us - our growth up there has been off the charts," she said.
It looks nothing like the downtown district of a typical major city, and has no skyscrapers.
A typical large city can have hundreds of towers.
It started with William standing alone in the middle of a street in a typical medieval city.
They wanted to study the typical small American city, which of course can not exist.
Like any typical Indian city, the majority of the population is from middle class and lower-middle-class families.
The song has also been made into a music video, which shows various generic people on a normal day in a typical city.
Compare this with the number of homicides in the typical American city.