Pop singer Adele closed her string of concerts in New York City on Monday, but not without making some headlines.

The songstress made a joke about men spreading their legs open in public places, like the bus, at her third concert on September 22nd.

“The last year that I did it (rode the bus), I’d get on like really early, and I would just spread my legs like that as though I had swollen (pause) something. So, close your legs, men. Okay?"

News outlets including The Huffington Post and Harper's Bazaar blew up the story that the world's biggest music artist was taking on the patriarchy.

Adele joked at Monday night's show about the whole incident, saying that it was absurd the amount of attention her imaginary balls received from news organizations.

She isn't wrong. So often clickbait, headline obsessed, 10-second clip-centric stories about Brad and Angelina's divorce, Kim Kardashian breaking the internet, or a celebrity's opinion on politics or culture makes the news.

Even non-celebrity news has become emotionally driven. Why have we heard so much about David Duke, a backwoods irrelevant racist from Louisiana this election cycle? Because racism sells.

It's the same reason that Anthony Weiner still manages to make the news with every one of his sexual indiscretions with women. He's an irrelevant former Congressman, but he can earn a website hundreds of thousands of clicks, so news outlets gladly peddle out stories about him.

Americans love their feelings, and so the news media delivers while important news fall by the wayside.

Here are five important headlines that are more important than Adele’s imaginary balls, but earned far less attention:

Increased fighting between NATO ally Turkey and American supported Kurdistan, a conflict that could lead to a future war that the U.S. could be dragged into.

President Obama vetoed a bill that allowed victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack to sue Saudi Arabia.

A 52-year long war in Colombia ended on Tuesday with the signing of a peace deal with the Marxist rebels.

The Senate voted to sell $1 billion in military equipment to Saudi Arabia.

On Sept. 22, it was announced that there are two vaccines for the Zika Virus going to human trial, which could prevent millions of people from becoming infected with the virus.