Nick Cave is many things to many people; pompous, articulate, talented, funny, erudite, and boring as bat shit. But back in 1996 not many Aussies were as hot as Saint Nick’s burning flame. Cave had just released his commercially successful album Murder Ballads, and its two lead singles, duets with Kylie Minogue and PJ Harvey, were getting heavy airplay on MTV.So it came as little surprise that Cave was nominated for Best Male Artist at the MTV Music Awards. What also may have come as little surprise to anyone familiar with Cave was his reaction to the nomination; a politely worded but nevertheless pointed “fuck off”.Taking his music as seriously as only Nick Cave can, he penned an open letter to the channel; treating his music as something that needs to be cared for and nurtured. “I am in competition with no-one. […] My muse is not a horse and I am in no horse race and if indeed she was, still I would not harness her to this tumbrel — this bloody cart of severed heads and glittering prizes.”Now, thanks to literary correspondence website Letters Live, we are able to bask in the surrealism of listening to Australia's darling Kyle Minogue read Cave's rejection letter in her amazing Kensington, London by way of Camberwell, Melbourne accent.Somehow Kylie is able to cut through all the arrogance and self-congratulatory Nick Cave bullshit and voice the writing in a familiar and surprisingly comforting timbre. It's kind of nice, in a weird way.