Chloe and Zoey are being worried for her- until MacKenzie reveals Nikki went behind their backs and decided to enter after all. At the talent show rehearsal, Nikki realized that her band can't perform because she never wrote their name down on the application.

Nikki decides to confess to her parents what happened, but they're too busy getting ready for a a Family Sharing Time activity. After the Halloween Dance, Nikki is floating on air- thinking about her crush Brandon the following morning while she gets ready for the day ahead of her.

Nikki doesn't care if she's the guest star, all she cares about is getting that 500 dollars so she can pay the school.

Mackenzie is the mean, super popular girl who doesn't like Nikki at ALL, along the other dorks at school.Tales from a Not So Talented Pop Star is the third book in the Dork Diaries by Rachel Reneé Russell. Nikki never seems to feel any guilt about doing this, even though she says repeatedly throughout the book that her family doesn't have much money. She has blonde hair, blue eyes, and a little sister named Amanda, who is best friends with Nikki's sister, Brianna. Later, Mackenzie’s tells Chloe and Zoey that two guys that they are crushing on like them so they will and do join Mac’s Maniac. Though Mackenzie is set up as a bully and a horrible, shallow, though popular person, Nikki seems to do things that are just as horrible as the things Mackenzie does.

Nikki's school is holding a talent competition and Nikki can't wait to start practising dance moves with her BFFs, Chloe and Zoey, and impressing Brandon, her crush, with her singing skills! André somewhat rivaled Brandon Roberts for Nikki's affection at first, but he eventually understood that Nikki only saw him as a friend and backed off.The book was funny like when Nikki was roasting marshmallows in their backyard and their dads pant caught on fire.

There are long random scenes inserted into the book that literally have nothing to do with the plot.They are so ridiculous yet real and all of the mid to late 2000s pop culture references like the Jonas Brothers and Justin Timberlake. Rachel Renee Russell is a lawyer who prefers writing children's books to legal briefs (mainly because books are a lot more fun and pyjamas and bunny slippers aren't allowed in court). At Westchester Country Day, Nikki encounters über-snobbish MacKenzie, the archetypal mean girl and her pack of "CCP"—Nikki's acronym for the cute, cool and popular—friends.