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I disagree. The claim "Justin Bieber sucks" conveys information about the preferences of the speaker to a greater degree than "Windows sucks".
Sure, you can call them false, but they're an interesting subset of false propositions that are false not because they make incorrect statements about the world but because they don't correspond to real-world properties. And it may be useful to hack your brain to think of such a proposition as "true" self-efficacy purposes.
You would be being kinda silly though because as you say, "Madonna sucks" corresponds to no real-world property. From a purely pragmatic perspective, you experience no loss regardless of the truth value you assign to statements that have dangling pointers to things that aren't real-world properties. So you might as well choose whatever truth value you want for the purpose of helping your brain get things done.