[4] The songs for Electric were recorded in alphabetical order, and Neil Tennant decided "Thursday" fit well in the sequence and wrote lyrics about anticipating the weekend.

Both physical and digital formats include remixes by Tensnake and Eddie Amador, as well as two previously unreleased B-sides, "No More Ballads" and "Odd Man Out".

[11] Thom Gibbs of NME described the song as beginning "with a resurrection of the tragic synth wash of 'West End Girls' before unfolding into an irresistible disco explosion".

[12] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote: "Thursday, meanwhile, not only features a gorgeous combination of squelching bass and drifting, misty clouds of synthesisers and the reliable source of joy that is Chris Lowe taking to the microphone in stone-faced, Lancashire-vowelled Paninaro style, but rapper Example, who you might have been forgiven for thinking was precisely the kind of pop star Ego Music took aim at… but there's something striking about how his cocksure verse contrasts with the wistful neediness of Tennant's vocal".

[13] The accompanying music video was filmed in Shanghai, China, when Pet Shop Boys performed there during the Electric Tour in August 2013.

[15] The Oregonian described the video as featuring "not only two orange, Dali-esque women dancing in a busy intersection but a man with a disco ball for a head, naming all the days of a four-day weekend.